Brussels police

Constructive relations between Turkey and Russia will not be interrupted by the Nov. 24 downing of a Russian jet, the Russian-Turkish Businessmen Association (RT?B) has said in a statement.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia was still awaiting a reasonable answer from Ankara on why it downed a Russian fighter jet earlier this week, adding that it is not considering sanctions against Turkey or imposing a food imports embargo. 

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded up to eight years and two months in jail for Today's Zaman's editor-in-chief, Bülent Kene?, for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on social media and in his statements. 

The indictment was prepared upon complaints by the lawyers representing the president. 

A curfew declared in the Nusaybin district of southeastern Mardin province was lifted on Nov. 26, 13 days after it was instituted, the district's governor's office has announced.

The curfew, which was declared on Nov. 13 at 9 p.m., was lifted on Nov. 26 starting from 8 a.m., the statement said.

Russia said on Nov. 26 that it would reinforce control over Turkish food imports as tensions surged with Ankara over the downing of a Russian warplane in Syria.

Turkey's military invited Russian military attachés to its headquarters on Nov. 25 to explain that Ankara shot down a Russian fighter jet the previous day because its rules of engagement were invoked after the plane failed to respond to warnings, according to army sources.

The Turkish army on Nov. 25 released a series of audio recordings of apparent warnings issued to a Russian jet before it was downed near the Syrian border.    

A Russian opposition leader, Sergei Mironov, said on Nov. 25 that his party had submitted a bill to the Russian parliament on holding to account anyone who denies that the 1915 killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire "was genocide." 

Four members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been captured in two separate provinces, the Turkish General Staff has said in a written statement.

The general staff said Nov. 25 that two Russian citizens identified to be ISIL members were detained in an operation in the northwestern province of Bursa.

Sixteen people out of 22 detained over the smuggling of migrants into Europe from Turkey were arrested on Nov. 25 by an Istanbul court.

Police squads raided a number of different locations in the Zeytinburnu district, on the European side of the city, as part of a series of operations targeting smugglers between Nov. 15 and 19, police sources said.