Turkey expresses condolences to Russia over death of pilot

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Russia met in Belgrade on Thursday in the first high-level bilateral talks since the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkish jets sparked an unprecedented crisis.

"The meeting between the two foreign ministers lasted for 40 minutes," a Turkish foreign ministry official told AFP, confirming it was now over but without giving further details.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed Ankara's condolences to Russia for the death of a Russian pilot from the warplane shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border last week.

"We expressed our sadness and expressed our condolences for the Russian pilot who lost his life," Turkish media quoted Cavusoglu as saying after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Belgrade, in the first high-level contact between the two sides since the incident on November 24...
 AFP - i24news.tv
3/12/15
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