Actually, I heard our former PM Ahmet Davutoglu’s statement that he authorized shooting down a Russian plane near Syria in November 2015. However, we heard from minister Simsek that the pilots made an individual decision.
Ex-Prime Minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, has admitted that he gave the order which led to the downing of the Russian Su-24 in November of 2015. This has been reported by Hurriyet Daily News. Earlier, Turkish authorities said that shortly before the tragic incident, the Turkish government had changed the rules on aerial incident response, placing decision-making authority in the hands of pilots. At the same time, Davutoglu acknowledged that on October 10th, 2015 he gave the order to shoot down any aircraft that had violated the country's airspace.
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