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Turkey's Su-24 attack destroys bilateral ties: Kremlin

Xinhua, November 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

Turkey's downing of a Russian Su-24 warplane has dealt a "devastating" blow to bilateral ties, Kremlin said Thursday.

"It will be very difficult to mend bilateral relations after such quite devastating damage. It is too serious an incident that serious consequences are unavoidable... and we are still waiting for realistic explanations from the Turkish side," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov added that no separate meeting has been planned so far between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the upcoming Paris Climate Change Conference, which both leaders are expected to attend.

On Wednesday, Russian media reported that local authorities could impose restrictions on imports from Turkey as a responsive measure to the downing of the Su-24 jet, citing health and sanitary claims against a Turkish company specializing in poultry production and processing.

But the spokesman ruled out the possibility that Russian would issue a ban on all Turkish products.

"No embargo will be introduced," he said, stressing that additional measures of control would be taken as "the degree of danger grows."

Meanwhile, Peskov denied that Russia had canceled a bilateral summit with Turkey previously scheduled for December in Russia's second largest city St. Petersburg, but added that the organization of the event could be subject to the impact of the incident. Endi