He said Turkey is not a country to be judged.
“It’s weird that Russia forsook a friend like Turkey because of a pilot’s mistake, while our relations with Mr Putin was at a very different level and there were friendly bilateral relations. I hope this problem will be solved soon, and Turkey and Russia would retake the same steps they had taken over the last decade,” he said.
Note that Russian FM Sergei Lavrov has demanded that Turkey apologizes and compensates for the losses incurred in the downing of the Russian jet.