Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 25 said Turkey's political leaders had been encouraging the Islamisation of Turkish society, something he said was a problem, Russian agencies quoted him as saying.

Speaking a day after Turkey shot down one of Moscow's jets, Putin said: 

"The problem is not the tragedy we witnessed yesterday," the TASS news agency quoted him as saying. 

Russia's federal Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadirov has slammed Turkey's shooting down of a Russian jet on Nov. 24 as a "betrayal," saying "Ankara will regret" the incident.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev blamed Turkey for worsening the relations between Russia and NATO.

Medvedev described the Turkish action of taking down the Russian Su-24 warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday as criminal, which will have three consequences.

Bulgarian ambassador to Turkey, Nadezhda Neynski, said on Wednesday that the worsening of relations between Russia and Turkey could lead to an increase in the refugee wave.

In an interview for private NOVA TV, Neynski commented the downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish fighter jets near the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday.

The shooting down of a Russian warplane on Nov. 24 marks a first in many aspects. First of all, it is the first Russian warplane downed by a NATO country since the 1950s, and the first shot down by Turkey since the alliance was founded in the late 1940s.

The Russian Su-24 plane downed by Turkish F-16s on the morning of Nov. 24 near the Syrian border was the first Russian (or Soviet) war plane hit and downed by a NATO country since the organization was founded in 1949, after World War II. 

Yesterday, at around 9 a.m. in the morning, Turkey downed a Russian fighter jet right at the Syrian border. According to the Turkish Chief of Staff, the plane had violated Turkish air space "for five minutes, despite being warned 10 times." Russia said there was no violation and that Turkey had downed the plane while it was in Syrian airspace. 

The conflict between Russia and Turkey is escalated after a Russian jet was shot down by Turkey in the Turkey-Syria borders with Russian President Vladimir Putin stating that Russia has being “stabbed in the back” and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying the Russian aircraft violated Turkish airspace.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that his country exercised its "international right and national duty" by downing a Russian warplane which the authorities in Ankara said had violated the Turkish airspace.

Turkey has the right to take "all kinds of measures" against border violations, Davutoglu said on Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency.

Turkey's stocks fell 4.39 percent and its debt insurance costs rose on Nov. 24 after it reportedly shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian border, while other emerging assets also struggled in the face of a strong dollar and weak commodities.