North Atlantic Council (NAC), will hold an extraordinary meeting with Turkey, NATO’s deputy spokesman told Sputnik on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko – NATO's decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council (NAC), will hold an extraordinary meeting with Turkey over the downing of a Russian fighter jet, NATO’s deputy spokesman told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"At the request of Turkey, the North Atlantic Council will hold an extraordinary meeting at 17.00 Brussels time [16:00 GMT]," Carmen Romero said.

Romero said the alliance was monitoring the situation surrounding Turkey downing Russia’s Su-24 "closely" and was "in close contact" with Turkish authorities,

"The aim of this extraordinary NAC meeting is for Turkey to inform Allies about the downing of a Russian airplane," she added.