Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the country could reconsider purchasing Russian gas over an incident in which a Russian aircraft entered Turkish airspace during the anti-Islamic State (ISIL) operation in Syria.
"It is important to know that we have no problems with Russia in the energy sphere. Russia is a good supplier for us, and we are a good customer for it, we get around 60 percent of our gas from Russia. We are in no way going to give up Russian gas," Alaboyun told the Anadolu agency in an interview.
After the operation began, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said a Russian military aircraft violated the country’s airspace near Syria on October 3. The Russian Defense Ministry later confirmed that on October 3 an Su-30 Flanker multirole fighter briefly entered Turkish airspace for a few seconds due to poor weather conditions.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists later that the incident involving a Russian jet entering Turkish airspace had not affected relations between the countries. According to Davutoglu, Moscow assured Ankara that such incidents would not take place in the future.
