Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet yesterday after it veered into its airspace for 17 seconds, a long-feared clash that starkly demonstrated the dangers to international security in Syria’s war.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that the “tragic incident” would bring “serious consequences” for Turkey, following Russia’s first loss of life in a military engagement with a Nato country since the cold war.
In a sign that the incident might jeopardise greater co-operation over Syria, Mr Putin went on to accuse Ankara of providing financial and military support to jihadi extremists, asking: “Do they want to put Nato at Isis’s service?”
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