He described it as a "stab in the back" committed by "accomplices of terrorists".He described it as a "stab in the back" committed by "accomplices of terrorists".
Turkey says its jets shot at the plane after warning that it was violating Turkish airspace. But Moscow says it never strayed from Syrian airspace.
Nato is holding an extraordinary meeting to discuss the incident at Turkey's request.
Mr Putin warned there would be "serious consequences" for Moscow's relations with Turkey.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he was cancelling his visit to Turkey, where he was due on He also advised Russians not to visit Turkey and said the threat of terrorism there was no less than in Egypt, where a bomb attack brought down a Russian passenger plane last month.
In the latest response:
- US President Barack Obama has said Turkey has a right to defend its territory and airspace, and that the incident pointed to ongoing problems with Russia's military operations in Syria. He said it was important to find out exactly what had happened and to take measures to "discourage any kind of escalation"
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey's right to protect its borders must be respected
- Nato's ambassadors have called on Turkey to show "cool-headedness" after downing Russian warplane, diplomatic sources are quoted by Reuters news agency as saying
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Mr Putin said the Su-24 was hit by an air-to-air
missile fired by a Turkish F-16 while it was flying over Syrian territory.
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He said the plane had been attacked "at a
height of 6,000 metres (20,000ft), 1km from the border".
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It crashed into Syrian territory 4km from the
border, he added.
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It flew over a small piece of Turkey that
projects into Syria that would have taken the jet only a few moments to fly
over, correspondents say
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This was tough language from an
icy-looking President Putin. Much of his comments were for domestic
consumption. After all, he launched air strikes in Syria arguing that it would
make Russia safer; instead, 224 people were blown out of the sky last month in
a bomb attack - and now this.
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By rounding on Turkey, he is in part
deflecting any suggestion that his own policy has backfired. But he is clearly
furious too and it's not clear yet how that will translate into action.
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On state TV, there have been calls
for a "tough response"; there's talk of economic sanctions - and the
foreign ministry has issued a travel warning, proclaiming Turkey as dangerous
as Egypt following the terror attack on tourists there.
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Since then, and the Paris attacks,
there had been hints of a rapprochement between Russia and the West - uniting
against a common threat. Ideally, Russia won't want to scupper that, but this
latest incident presents a huge challenge.
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The two crew members ejected as
their burning aircraft plunged into a Syrian hillside.
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Video footage has shown what appears
to be the dead body of one of the flyers, surrounded by armed rebels.
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Another piece of video, obtained by
a Turkish news network, has shown the pilots being shot at from the ground by
unidentified rebels.
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"In any case, our pilots, planes did not
threaten Turkish territory in any way. It is quite clear," Mr Putin said.
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"They were carrying out an operation
against Isis [Islamic State] in the mountains of northern Latakia, where
militants are focused - who mostly originate from the territory of Russia.
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"So they were carrying the key task of
preventative attacks against those who could return to Russia at any time.
These are people who must be directly qualified as international
terrorists."
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Turkish military officials said the plane was
engaged after being warned that it was violating Turkish airspace.
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It is the first time a Russian aircraft has
crashed in Syria since Moscow launched air strikes against militants fighting
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in late September.
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The Nato military alliance, to which Turkey
belongs, said it was following the situation "closely" and was in
contact with the Turkish authorities.
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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
said the jet had crashed in the mountainous Jabal Turkmen area of Latakia,
where air strikes and fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces had
been reported earlier on Tuesday.
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Russian military helicopters searched for the
pilot and navigator near the crash site in the predominantly Turkmen Bayir
Bucak area, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported.
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A spokesman for a rebel group operating in the
area, the 10th Brigade of the Coast, told the Associated Press that the jet's
crew had tried to parachute into government-held territory, but that they came
under fire from members of the group.
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One of them was dead when he landed on the
ground, he added. The fate of the second was not immediately known.
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Turkey, a vehement opponent of Syria's
president, has warned against violations of its airspace by Russian and Syrian
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