As well as economic sanctions on Turkey, Moscow has scrapped talks on building a pipeline to export Russian natural gas to Europe.
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Sitting next to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the Turkish prime minister melted into a lengthy toast to kinship between Azerbaijan and Turkey; one country that fate divided in two, he said.
“We will remind them not just once about what they have done, and they will feel sorry about it more than just once”, Mr Putin said without spelling out what other actions Russian Federation may take.
Diplomatic relations between Russia and Turkey were recently shaken after the Russian Su-24 was shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border by Turkish forces on November 24.
Russia’s heaviest bombardments are now being focused on those very rebels, many of them Turkmen fighters, trying to make sure that Turkey doesn’t even achieve that.
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is finishing today his official visit to Azerbaijan.
Touching upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Davutoglu said that Turkey will continue to support Azerbaijan in the settlement of the conflict.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin failed to meet in Paris during an ongoing climate change conference, despite a request from Ankara.
It has branded the incident a war crime and has since slapped retaliatory sanctions on Turkey, including bans on some food imports from the country.
In June 2015, Gazprom secured permission from Turkey to carry out engineering surveys for the offshore section of the Turkish Stream and planned to conduct investigations within the exclusive economic zone and territorial waters of Turkey.
Mr. Lavrov said that a U.N. Security Council resolution on the fight against terrorism called on the global community to respect Syria’s sovereignty. He said the military action has proven the capability of Russia’s modernized military.
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“Russia has forced the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries to confront this reality and view Turkey more closely”, said Mr. Petrolekas, who had worked closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation during his career as a staff officer in the Canadian Army. Russian leadership in the Kremlin insists that the plane remained in Syrian airspace during its entire mission, which involved performing airstrikes on Syrian soil. Another Russian serviceman was killed in the rescue operation.
