Erdogan: Downing the Russian fighter plane was ‘pilot error’

Turkey’s President, Tayyip Erdogan, said that downing the Russian plan on November 2015 was “an error or malfunction of the Turkish pilot” and “the fact that our relations with Russia are at a low point and that Putin is sacrificing Turkey due to a pilot’s error is puzzling. We must ensure that our ties with Moscow return to normal.”

 

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