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Photo from Twitter of the Turkish television channel NTV

The Turkish authorities called a provocation of the action of a Russian soldier, photographed with MANPADS on board the ship in the Bosphorus Strait. “If we have a sense of threat, our reaction will be appropriate,” Hurriyet quotes the statement of the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry of Mevlut Chavushoglu.

“How the warships should pass through the Bosphorus, everyone is well known, it is recorded in the Montrers Convention. What was during the passage through the Bosphorus in the hands of a military man of the Russian Federation, we regard as a potential threat, and we consider the incident the incident,” said Chavushol.

In the photo, published on Sunday, Turkish media, the Russian soldier on board the large landing ship Caesar Kunikov is supposedly captured. In his hands he has an object resembling a portable anti -aircraft missile system. According to the Turkish NTV television channel, the picture was taken on December 5 at the moment when the ship passed off the coast of Istanbul on the way to Syria. Caesar Kunikov is in service with the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.

Relations between Moscow and Ankara were aggravated after the Turkish Air Force shot down the Russian Su-24 bomber. The Turkish side said that the Su-24 invaded the country's airspace.