Turkey receives body of second Russian pilot

Last updated: November 29, 2015 12:01 pm

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Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AFP PHOTO/STR)

Turkey said it received the body of a Russian pilot who was killed when his military aircraft was shot down at the Syrian border.

Turkey downed a Russian Su-24 aircraft, saying it violated its airspace. Russia however denied.

Another pilot was rescued by the Syrian and Russian Special Forces.

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Ahmed Abbas is a journalist at DNE’s politics section. He previously worked as Egypt based reporter for Correspondents.org, and interned as a broadcast journalist at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin. Abbas is a fellow of Salzburg Academy of Media and Global Change. He holds a Master’s Degree of Journalism and New Media from Jordan Media Institute. He was awarded by the ICFJ for best public service reporting in 2013, and by the German foreign office for best feature in 2014.