Putin refused to talk to ask for a meeting Erdogan – RBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS

The Kremlin said that Putin’s contacts and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lately has not been and is not planned. Turkey’s leader Putin offered to meet after a new incident with the Russian aircraft

«No, no contact there was between the presidents of Russia and Turkey. I do not know, and that some contacts are planned “, – told reporters the Sands,” Interfax »

On Monday, February 1 Peskov said that Putin was informed about Erdogan’s desire to meet and discuss the incident. participation bomber Su-34, which allegedly violated Turkish airspace. At the same time Peskov declined to talk about Putin’s reaction. Presidential spokesman noted that the Kremlin about another incident in the Turkish airspace Based on the information, statements by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

January 30, Erdogan said about the need to meet with Putin in connection with another incident with the Russian aircraft . According to him, he asked the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s Moscow convey this request.

On Saturday afternoon the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which it stated that the morning of 29 January Su-34 Russian Air Force has violated the country’s airspace. Ankara stressed that the crew received repeated warnings of the approach to the border in the Russian and English languages. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey through military channels Moscow gave evidence of the Su-34 invasion of the sky in Turkey, but in the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry later refuted this information. Sami charges in the invasion of airspace spokesman for the Russian Defense Minister Igor Konashenkov called “unfounded propaganda.”