Putin: Russia ready to consider restoring relations with Turkey
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he was ready to consider restoring relations with Ankara, but that would require a first step from Turkey.
"Russia also wants to restore relations with Turkey, we still don’t understand why plane was shot-down," Putin told a joint news conference in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Daily Sabah reported.
The source reminds, that relations between the two countries hit a new low on November 2015, when following the downing of a Sukhoi-24M jet in Syrian border, Moscow announced wide-ranging sanctions against Turkey, including the end of visa-free travel and a ban on Turkish food products.
Russia also called on its nationals to boycott Turkey as a tourist destination.