Turkish official on Reuters

  • Was a step to defend Turley's sovereignty

Bloomberg have further comments

  • Turkey repeatedly warned jet before border violation
  • Aircraft didn't heed warnings, then flew over Turkey

With all the speculation that's going on, perhaps it's wise to follow the Russian line on the incident where they are not jumping to any conclusions

"It would be wrong to make some kind of assumptions right now, to make any statements until we have the complete picture. Therefore, we just have to be patient. This is a very serious incident, but again, it is impossible to say anything without complete information,"

The EU is also out saying they want to know what happened also