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© EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOVRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks during a press conference following talks with French President Francois Hollande (L) in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, 26 November 2015.
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had given prior information to the United States of the flight path of the Su-24 downed by the Turkish Air Force on the Syrian border. The US leads the anti-Daesh coalition, in which Turkey is member.

"The American side, which leads the coalition that Turkey belongs to, knew about the location and time of our planes' flights, and we were hit exactly there and at that time," Putin said at a joint press conference with French counterpart Francois Hollande in the Kremlin. "Why did we give this information to the Americans if they did not pass it along to the rest of the coalition?"

Moreover, Putin dismissed as "rubbish" Turkey's claim that it didn't know the nationality of the plane when the Turkish Air Force hit it. "They (Russian military jets) have identification signs and these are well visible," Putin said and added. "If it was an American aircraft, would they have struck an American?...What we hear instead is they have nothing to apologize for."

According to the Voice of America (VoA), in an interview with CNN, Erdogan said his country would not apologize for downing the jet, which violated Turkish air space for 17 seconds. "I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us," Erdogan said and added. "Those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize."

When Turkish jet shot down by the Syrian Army

According to British daily The Guardian, when in 2012, the Syrian military shot down a Turkish jet which had entered the Syrian airspace, Erdogan made a furious response at the time saying that "a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack."

At the time, NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the Syrian attack as "another example of the Syrian authorities' disregard for international norms."

Moreover, in regard with the violations of national airspaces, the Turkish Air Force committed a total of 2,244 violations of the Greek airspace in 2014, despite the fact that the NATO ally country faces the worst economic crisis since WWII. Witnesses in Lesvos, the now well-known Northern Eastern Aegean Greek island, have repeatedly show dogfights over the Greek airspace.