President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeated his call to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a face-to-face meeting in Paris on the sidelines of the Global Climate Summit to talk and to resolve ongoing bilateral crisis after a Russian warplane was downed by Turkey on Nov 24.

“What we tell Russia is ‘Let’s talk about this issue within its boundaries and let’s settle it. Let’s not make others happy by hurting our all relationship. I think the UN Global Climate Change Summit to be held in Paris on Monday could be an opportunity to restore our relations,” Erdoğan said on Nov 28 in a statement during his visit to Balıkesir.

Erdoğan said a meeting to be held in Paris would be a good way to talk about the issue and to solve it.

Turkey has already proposed to hold a presidential meeting in Paris but Moscow refused it because Turkey did not accept to apologize for the downing of its jetfighter. Turkey expressed its sorrow but refused to apologize as it was Russia’s duty to do so as it was its warplane that violated the Turkish airspace.

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