The shooting down of the fighter plane was "a stab in the back committed by accomplices of terrorists", Putin said at a meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II. "I cannot call what happened today anything else."
Putin insisted the plane did not pose any threat to Turkey. "Our plane was shot down over the territory of Syria by an air-to-air missile from a Turkish F-16 jet. It fell in Syrian territory four kilometres from the border with Turkey," Putin said in televised comments.
"Our pilots and our plane did not in any way threaten Turkey."
But Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara has a duty to act against anyone violating its borders.
"Everyone must know that it is our international right and national duty to take any measure against whoever violates our air or land borders," Davutoglu said.
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