Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu dismissed Russian allegations that Turkey was buying oil from Islamic State as “Soviet-style propaganda” on Thursday and said the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member was doing all it could to secure its border with Syria.
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Russia’s imports from Turkey were $3.1 billion in January-September 2015, with Ankara’s turnover of goods with Moscow equalling $18.1 billion (4.6 percent) of all Russian trade.
Mr Kabil said that an offer has been presented to his Russian counterpart, Mr Denis Manturov, to help cover Russia’s needs.
Moscow deployed long-range air defense missile systems to its base in Syria and slammed an array of economic sanctions on Turkey, including a ban on imports of fruit and vegetables and the sales of tour packages.
“Implementation of the project Nord Stream-2 should have some positives for the Czech Republic”, said Industry Minister Jan Mladek, who added the Czechs still supported Ukraine as a transit country.
“We will not refuse this proposal”, Lavrov said at a press conference after talks in Nicosia with his Cypriot counterpart.
Cavusoglu was quoted by Turkish state broadcaster TRT as saying it would be unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved with Russian Federation after a single meeting, but that it was important to keep communication channels open.
Antonov didn’t provide any specific evidence to back up the claims of personal involvement of Erdogan and his family in the oil trade with the IS.
Turkey insists the Russian Su-24 was warned 10 times in five minutes before it was shot down, but the Russian Defense Ministry has said the plane was shot down while in Syrian airspace.
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The Turkish leader has denied Russian President Vladimir Putin’s earlier claims of Turkey’s participation in petroleum commerce with all the IS, and has vowed to step down if its accusations are proven by Moscow.
