Earlier in January, Turkish Economy Minister Mustafa Elitas said that Ankara would lodge a complaint against Russia to WTO and international courts over restrictions imposed on Ankara after downing of a Russian Su-24 jet.
"Ankara may complain as much as it wants and to anywhere it wants. Restrictive measures imposed by Russia against Turkey are our rather soft response to a treacherous stab in the back," Franz Klintsevich, the first deputy chair of the upper house Committee on Security and Defense, said.
The downing of Russia’s Su-24 frontline bomber over Syria by a Turkish jet on November 24 damaged relations between Moscow and Ankara.
In the wake of the incident, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the economic measures against Ankara following the Su-24 downing. The decree, which entered into force on Friday, includes a ban on employment of Turkish citizens by Russian employers, a food import ban on certain categories of products, as well as a ban on charter flights in both directions.