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Turkey warns Russia not to 'play with fire' over downed jet
Turkish President Erdogan has warned Russia's President Putin not to "play with fire" over his country's downing of a Russian jet.Turkish President Erdogan has warned Russia's President Putin not to "play with fire" over his country's downing of a Russian jet.
In a televised speech, Mr Erdogan said he wanted to meet Mr Putin "face-to-face" at climate talks in Paris to resolve the issue.
But Mr Putin has refused as Turkey is not ready to apologise, an aide said.
Russia has also decided to suspend its visa-free arrangement with Turkey, Russia's foreign minister said.
Turkey says the jet was in its airspace when it was targeted, but Russia insists it was flying over Syria.
"I would like to meet [Mr Putin] face-to-face in Paris," said Mr Erdogan. "I would like to bring the issue to a reasonable point. We are disturbed that the issue has been escalated."
But he also said Turkey did not want to damage its relationship with Russia.
However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the incident could severely undermine Turkey's interests.
"We believe that the Turkish leadership has crossed the line of what is acceptable," he said at the start of talks with Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem in Moscow.
Mr Lavrov said that Russia was cancelling its visa-free travel regime with Turkey, starting from 1 January.