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Sunday 29 Nov 2015 - 15:28 Makkah mean time-17-2-1437
Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu (Image from Internet)
Ankara (IINA) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday the body of a Russian pilot killed when his plane was shot down by Turkey last week will be handed over to a Russian representative after being retrieved from Syria, AFP reported.
"The pilot who lost his life during the air violation was received by us on the (Syrian) border last night," Davutoglu told reporters in Istanbul before leaving for a meeting with EU leaders in Brussels.
Davutoglu added that a Russian official would travel "soon" to the southern Hatay region with a Turkish military official to take possession of the body.
The Russian embassy in Turkey told the RIA Novosti news agency that Oleg Peskov's body would be flown on Sunday from Hatay in the presence of Russia's military attaché to an aerodrome in Ankara where it would be met by the ambassador.
The date and time when the body would be returned to Russia was still to be confirmed, embassy spokesman Igor Mityakov was quoted as saying.
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