ANKARA

The Turkish and Russian foreign ministers discussed Syria via telephone Wednesday, according to a Turkish diplomatic source.

Mevlut Cavusoglu offered his condolences to Sergey Lavrov for a deadly plane crash Monday when a Superjet-100 plane with 78 people on-board, traveling from Moscow to Murmansk, caught fire soon after take-off and asked for an emergency landing.

At least 41 people were killed.

*Writing by Burak Bir