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Russia to receive body of deceased pilot from Turkey
2015-11-30
ANKARA -- Turkey says it has received the body of a Russian pilot killed after his plane was shot down on the Syrian border, the BBC reported on Sunday.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the body of Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov would be given back to Russia. Russia state television reported had reported that Peshkov's body was still in rebel-controlled Syrian territory. Russia posthumously awarded him its highest honour for valour, Hero of the Soviet Union Russia.
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