Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to visit Istanbul tomorrow. That planned visit will not be altered in the wake of the shooting down of the Russian Su-24 jet, a Turkish foreign ministry official has told AFP.
Turkey's Hurriyet Daily is reporting that Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has spoken with his Chief of Staff, Gen. Hulusi Akar, as well as Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu regarding the incident.
The Turkish Prime Minister's Office also said that Turkey will consult with NATO and the United Nations on the developments at the border with Syria.
Russia's Defense Ministry is also reporting that three Russian journalists have been lightly injured in Syria.
It seems the three journalists were embedded with the Syrian army.
The Defense Ministry is saying that the journalists' car was fired at from a TOW anti-tank missile. The incident happened yesterday, November 23.
The journalists have been returned to the Hmeymim air base for medical treatment.
Russia's Defense Ministry has tweeted in English to reiterate its earlier statement that the downed Russian Su-24 fighter jet was in Syrian air space and had not violated Turkish air space.
This is the information we have so far about the plane that was downed this morning in Syria near the Turkish border:
-- Turkish military officials have said that Turkish F-16 jets shot down a plane this morning after repeatedly warning its pilots that they were violating Turkish air space.
-- Video footage has emerged showing a plane crashing into the mountains in Latakia province.
-- Turkish news agencies say the plane crashed near the Yamadi refugee camp in Latakia province.
-- Russia's Defense Ministry have confirmed that the downed plane was a Russian Su-24 fighter jet.
-- Russia says that it can prove that the plane did not violate Turkish air space and that the plane was in Syrian air space the whole time.
-- Russia also says that the plane was shot down by surface to air fire -- not by an F-16.
-- The two pilots are believed to have ejected. There are reports that one was arrested by Syrian Turkmen but the fate of the other pilot is not yet known.
CNN Turk posted this image earlier of smoke rising from the hilltop where the Russian Su-24 jet crashed this morning.
Russia's Interfax has reported that Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper to say that one of the two Russian pilots from the plane shot down near the Turkish border has been found and detained by local Turkmen in Syria, and the fate of the second pilot remains unknown.
Citing a report by the CNNTurk TV channel, Interfax says that after the pilots managed to eject, the plane fell on the Yamadi refugee camp in Latakia province.
The Interfax report was made shortly before the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the downed plane was a Russian jet.
Turkish media has broadcast footage of a plane crashing into mountains near the Syrian border with Hatay province in southern Turkey, claiming that this is the jet that was shot down this morning.
Russia's Defense Ministry has said that a Russian Su-24 jet was shot down in Syria.
RIA Novosti has published a statement from the Ministry, saying that, "Today in Syria, allegedly as a result of ground fire, an Su-24 plane of the Russian air group in the Syrian Arab Republic crashed."
"The plane was at an altitude of 6,000 meters. The fate of the pilots is being confirmed. According to preliminary data, the pilots managed to eject. The Defense Ministry notes that at all times during the flight the plane was only in Syrian territory. This is determined by objective methods of verification," the Ministry added.
French police are examining what appears to be a suicide belt that was found abandoned on a Paris street.
The item reportedly resembles belts used by attackers who carried out the November 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, the BBC is reporting.