Turkey offers house to family of downed Russian jet’s pilotJuly 1, 2016 - 18:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia lifted its ban on travel to Turkey, and a Turkish city offered a home to the family of the Russian fighter pilot whose plane was shot down on Nov. 24, 2015, UPI reports. The pilot's family, however, has refused any kind of compensation from Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered an apology earlier this week to Russian President Vladimir Putin for Turkey's attack on a Russian fighter jet, shot down over the Turkey-Syria border. The pilot, Oleg Peshkov, survived the crash of the plane but was shot and killed by Turkmen militants. Although Erdogan denied apologizing in his message to Putin, only using words including "deep sorrow" and "regret" in a letter, Putin found it adequate to ease the strain on Moscow-Ankara relations. The Turkish resort city of Kemer, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, offered a house to Peshkov's family. "I received a delegation led by Kemer's Mayor Mustafa Gul. The city's authorities said they would like to give a house as a gift to the family of the killed Russian pilot," said Alexander Tolstopyatenko, Russia's consul general in Antalya, Turkey. He added a decision whether to accept the offer has not been made, UPI says. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |