Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, has said he would be ready to quit office if allegations by his Russian counterpart that Turkey traded oil with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group were proved.
Erdogan's comments on Monday came after Vladimir Putin accused Turkey of shooting down the Russian Su-24 warplane last week to protect supplies of oil from ISIL to Turkey.
Turkey has already rejected the accusation.
"I will say something very strong here," Erdogan was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on the sidelines of the UN climate talks near Paris, which Putin is also attending.
"If such a thing is proven, the nobility of our nation would require that I would not stay in office."
Challenging Putin, who has refused to meet Erdogan after the November 24 incident in Yamadi, in Syria's Latakia province, Erdogan said: "And I tell Mr Putin: Would you stay in that office? I say this clearly."
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