The presidents of Russia and Turkey agreed during a telephone conversation on a private meeting on Wednesday, said the Turkish leader's press service. Putin expressed condolences on the terrorist attack at the airport of Istanbul. They talked also about normalization of relations between the two countries, and stressed the importance of bilateral cooperation, the report said.
Earlier, NTV television, citing its own sources said that talks between the two presidents lasted for forty minutes, and were "productive and positive". Last time the two leaders spoke in November at the summit of "Big Twenty" in Antalya, Turkey. Just a few days after a Turkish fighter jet shot down over Syria Russia's Su-24 bomber. Erdogan stated that immediately after the incident he tried to call to Putin, but he did not answer. -02D-
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Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday.
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CrashThe Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, has expressed his condolences and deep sadness over the tragic Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan with many fatalities.
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The crash of our plane in Aktau raises several questions that demand answers: 1. Many of the victims of this tragedy were people who previously traveled to the North Caucasus by train or car. These victims might not have existed if Azerbaijan hadn’t kept its land borders closed for several years.
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NATO expressed condolences regarding the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Alliance's spokesperson, Farah Dalallah, said on her social media account.
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