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The Turkish government intends to allow Russia to use the Indjirlik air base in the fight against the Islamic State. According to Interfax, the TRT Haber television channel with reference to the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Mevlyut Chavushoglu announced this.

"We can cooperate with everyone in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist organization. As you know, we opened the Indjirlik air base for those who want to participate in an active fight against the IG. Why not cooperate with Russia in this context? This terrorist organization is the enemy of all of us, and we must fight it," Chavushoglu said.

Currently, Ankara has allowed to use the base of the Air Force of the US Air Force, Germany, Great Britain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Last Friday, Russia and Türkiye agreed to resume the activities of the joint working group to combat terrorism and agreed on approaches to the anti -terrorist operation in Syria. This was the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed at a meeting with Chavushoglu in Sochi.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of an improvement in relations between the two countries, which occurred after a telephone conversation by Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdogan. According to the results of the conversation, Putin canceled the ban on sending Russian tourists to Turkey.

The president also instructed "to negotiate with the Government of the Turkish Republic on foreign economic relations." Depending on the results of these negotiations, the government must submit proposals on changing the validity of the validity or nature of "special economic and other measures provided for by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 28, 2015."

Relations between Moscow and Ankara deteriorated sharply after the Turkish Air Force on November 24, 2015 shot down the Russian Su-24 near the border with Syria. The pilot Oleg Peshkov was killed by the militants when he was descending by parachute.

According to Ankara, the aircraft violated the airspace of Turkey in the area of ​​the border with Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the aircraft was exclusively above the Syrian territory and that "there was no violations of the Turkish airspace."