Kremlin has confirmed the fact that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip  Erdoğan has sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Spokesperson of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov stated Tuesday.

“The letter came by MFA channels,” he noted, RIA Novosti reports.

Earlier, Erdoğan sent a letter to Putin, congratulating the Russians on the Day of Russia, and wishing the relations between Moscow and Ankara to reach “the proper level”.

For his part, Turkish PM Binali Yildirim sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev, in which he expressed hope that “in the near future the cooperation and relations between our countries will reach the level necessary for the common interests of our peoples.”

The relations between Russia and Turkey suffer crisis since the downing of the Russian Su-24 fighter jet by the Turkish side in the Syrian sky.