Baku – APA. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says he is ready to personally apologize to widow of the Russian pilot of the downed by Turkish forces Russian Su-24 jet, APA reported citing Sputnik International.
"We would like to provide financial support to the family of the deceased pilot. I conveyed to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that I was ready to pay a visit to the widow of the deceased Russian pilot, if she agrees to that, to offer my apologies and condolences," Cavusoglu told Rossiya-24 TV channel.
Earlier, the family of Russian military pilot Oleg Peshkov, who was killed after Turkey downed a Russian Su-24 aircraft in November 2015, will not accept any compensation from the Turkish government, a brother of the deceased pilot, Pavel Peshkov, said
A Turkish F-16 fighter shot down the Russian Su-24 combat jet near the Turkish border in Syria on November 24, 2015.
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