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Ambassador: Turkey Taking No Steps to Investigate Killing of Downed Su-24 Pilot
"Turkey’s authorities have taken no steps to
detain him (Alparslan Celik). He appears in TV programs and a number of
newspapers have published his interview so Mr. Celik walks freely in
Turkey," Karlov told the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Russia’s Su-24 bomber with two pilots onboard was shot down by the Turkish Air Force on November 24, 2015.
The crew of the Su-24 bomber managed to eject but
one of the pilots, Oleg Peshkov, was killed by gunfire from the ground.
The second pilot, Konstantin Murakhtin, was rescued and taken to the
Russian air base.
In an interview with Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper
in late December, Celik openly admitted that he directly took part in
the murder of the Russian pilot. Moscow has repeatedly called on Ankara
to find and detain Celik.
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