He said “the situation is too unsafe, and freedom and stability too fragile, for us to counter each other.” in an apparent reference to the relations between Russian Federation and Turkey. “And evidently Allah made a decision to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by depriving them of their intelligence and reason”. Moscow has already banned some Turkish food imports as part of a wider package of retaliatory sanctions.
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“Both sides do not want to escalate [problems] and want to fix relations, but we have different opinions and positions”.
Lavov also commented on Turkey’s that “Russian citizens are involved in the purchase of oil from IS” to say it was unusual they came only after Russia presented its claims that the Turkish president and his family are involved in this illegal trade.
Turkey will continue to support Azerbaijan in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu said December 3 during a joint press conference with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku.
“It is a huge discrepancy for Russian Federation to place sanctions against Turkey while it did not take kindly to those imposed on itself by other countries”.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expresses optimism that tensions with Russia will die down after meeting his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the first high-level meeting between the two nations since Turkey shot down a Russian jet.
“We didn’t shot down the Russian plane over Syria’s territory…The plane was shot over Turkey’s territory”.
“Turkey respects the borders of all countries but it also expects those countries to do so for its own borders”, he said. The ministry insisted the images definitively prove Turkey’s massive oil trade with the IS.
Turkey refuses to apologize for downing the fighter jet, what it sees as defending its airspace. There is understanding that the Kurds are allies on this issue, as they are in anti-Islamic State efforts. The base “will begin being used by Russian forces before the end of this month”. Who cares if you buy it or not?
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While Putin has repeatedly said Russian troops in Syria won’t engage in ground combat, the statement signaled the high degree of the Russian military’s involvement in coordinating Syrian army action.
