Turkey and Russian Federation has also underwent a diplomatic crisis within the last month as Turkey shot down a warplane from Russian Federation who Turkey claimed violated airspace around the Syrian border. Davutoglu told reporters Monday that “no Turkish prime minister or president will apologize … because of doing our duty”.
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Russian Federation insists that the talks can not go ahead until all parties agree on which opposition groups should be covered by a possible cease-fire and which should be targeted by airstrikes.
“We have a different view, a very different view from Russian Federation about what would be constructive for them to do in Syria”, Carter said.
Stoltenberg says the changes apply globally in what he described as a “dark” security environment, with concerns over Syria looming large.
US President Barack Obama has urged Ankara and Moscow to de-escalate tensions over the downed Russian jet but reiterated Washington’s support for Turkey.
But it did not target important energy projects such as the Turkish Stream gas pipeline or food stuffs such as lemons or nuts, most of which Russian Federation imports from Turkey.
According to a statement from Russian government Tuesday, Russian side will halt the import of Turkish white meat goods as well as vegetables and fruits like tomatos, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, oranges, apples, pears, strawberries and tangerines as of January 1, 2016. Both Russia and the United States see Turkey as the ultimate in order to resolve the conflict in Syria, so Turkey has to be on board for it all to work out.
The Turkey-Russia row is putting the squeeze on Baku, which can not afford to alienate either its close Turkic neighbor or its key trading partner.
“We all have a common enemy”. Hours after the incident, Putin said the Turks were “accomplices of terrorists”, vowing that the incident would have “serious consequences”.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a 2012 press conference.
Turkey says before it was downed the airplane entered its airspace and was warned to leave.
“Our call to Russian Federation again is to open military communication channels to prevent similar incidents happening”.
Putin had earlier claimed Turkey brought down the Russian warplane to protect its oil interests with the IS, a claim Erdoğan rejected. “They are then in a conversation about politics, and slowly we then are able to get everybody’s attention…to where it needs to be, and that is going after ISIL in a systematic way”. “We tried many times to convince them to change their approach to this matter, to their relationship with various organizations”.
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Angry protests have taken place outside the Turkish Embassy in Moscow.
