Kremlin says Turkey's Erdogan requests meeting with Putin in Paris

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had requested a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Paris on November 30.

"A proposal from the Turkish side about a meeting at the level of heads of state has been delivered to the president," Dmitry Peskov told journalists on a conference call. "That's all I can say."



Putin and Erdogan will attend the global climate summit that begins in Paris on November 30.

Earlier on Wednesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey did not want any escalation with Russia over its downing of a Russian plane on the Syrian frontier but vowed to always defend Turkish borders.

“We have no intention to escalate this incident. We are just defending our security and the rights of our brothers,” Erdogan said in a televised speech in Istanbul.



“Turkey has never favoured tensions and crisis, it has and will always favour peace and dialogue,” said Erdogan.

But he added: “No one should expect us to remain silent when our border security and our sovereignty are being violated.