ANKARA (Sputnik) – On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkish authorities had received the pilot’s body from Syria, where the Russian airbase is located, and would hand it over to the Russian side.
Since September 30, Moscow has been conducting airstrikes on terrorist positions in Syria at President Bashar Assad's request.
On November 24, the Russian Su-24 bomber, with its two pilots, crashed over Syrian territory, downed by an air-to-air missile fired from a Turkish F-16 fighter in response to an alleged violation of Turkish airspace.
Both the Russian General Staff and the Syrian Air Defense Command have confirmed that the Su-24 never crossed into Turkish airspace and was illegally downed on Syrian territory.
