(VOVworld) – Russia has demanded Turkish authorities to take immediate action to arrest Turkmen commander Alparslan Çelik who said in a recent interview with a Turkish daily that he shot one of the pilots of a Russian jet downed by Turkey on November 11.
Alpaslan Çelik, a deputy commander in a Syrian Turkmen Brigade (C), holds handles believed to be parts of a parachute of the downed Russian warplane near the northern Syrian village of Yamadi, near the Turkish-Syrian border, Syria, November 24, 2015. (Photo: Reuters)
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A spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on Wednesday expressed the outrage upon an article run by one of Turkish major newspapers quoting a person saying that he killed the Russian pilot and took part in hostilities while Turkey had no response towards it.
Last Sunday, Turkey’s mainstream Hürriyet daily published an interview with Çelik, who admitted to having shot the Russian pilot and took part in an illegal armed forces in Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved on Wednesday the proposal of the Cabinet of Ministers to withdraw from a treaty on mutual legal assistance with Turkey reached in 1997. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution which prohibits Turkish companies on construction, tourism, the hotel business and services for the state and municipalities starting January 1, 2016.