Turkey, Russia and their respective allies have entered a war of words about the downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border – raising tensions in a region struggling to cope with the ongoing Syrian conflict. The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplane was shot down for violating Turkish airspace on Tuesday morning, Turkish officials said, angering Russia#39;s President Vladimir Putin, who likened the incident to being “stabbed in the back”. The plane crashed in Syrian territory in Lata
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Turkey Russia warplane: Russian war jet downed in Syria
