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Thursday 31 Dec 2015 - 10:50 Makkah mean time-20-3-1437
The downing of Russian Su-24 jet (Google image)
Moscow (IINA) – Russia on Wednesday demanded Ankara to arrest a Turkish citizen whom Moscow accuses of involvement in the murder of the Russian pilot of Su-24 warplane downed by Turkey's air forces on November 24, news agencies reported.
“We demand that the Turkish authorities take immediate action to catch Alparslan Celik and his accomplices and charge them with criminal offence for killing a Russian pilot," Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
In an interview with Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper published on Sunday, Alparslan Celik, a Turkish citizen who fights with Turkmen opponents in Syria, said that " his "conscience cannot be bothered by a person who threw bombs at Turkmen civilians every day", in an allusion to the Russian pilot who was flying Su-24.
"Revenge is the most natural right," Celik said, without claiming responsibility for shooting or giving order to shoot at the pilot, who ejected from the fighter jet.
Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a bitter row over the downing of the Su-24 jet on November 24, with the Kremlin imposing a raft of economic sanctions against Turkey.
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