MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday vowed to carry out broad retaliatory measures against Turkey’s economy to avenge the downing of one of its warplanes as Moscow and Ankara traded furious verbal volleys.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rebuffed the Kremlin’s demands for an apology and said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had snubbed a phone call from him after Tuesday’s incident.

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