“At the moment we have received additional information confirming that the oil from the deposits controlled by Daesh militants enters Turkish territory on an industrial scale”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 30.
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Prior to last week no regional or worldwide power had dared to militarily challenge President Putin’s aggressive new strategy for Russian foreign policy in its “near overseas”.
Cagaptay said Russian Federation and Iran, whose militaries are working together in Syria, in all likelihood told Iraqi officials to issue the warning to Turkey as a way to embarrass the country, though he predicted the matter wouldn’t reach the United Nations. Only a few weeks ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, set a goal for trade between the two to grow threefold in the coming decade to reach $100 billion (€91 billion) a year, mainly with vast energy projects.
Cavusoglu added: “We are asking Russian Federation to act as a more mature state”. “And I don’t think either is prepared to do so anytime soon”, said Philip Gordon, senior fellow at the US-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Putin repeated the accusation, laid out the day before in a lengthy briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry, that the governing Turkish elite was earning a fortune from oil exported by the Islamic State.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced Turkey and Azerbaijan’s intentions to complete the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) ahead of schedule.
Davutoglu said Turkey was doing all it can and is setting up “physical barriers” on that stretch of border. “Probably, Allah made a decision to punish Turkey’s ruling clique by depriving it of sense and reason”, Putin said.
“We haven’t heard anything new”, Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said during a news conference broadcast live in Russia.
Just nine days ahead of the shooting-down of the plane, Erdogan had welcomed Putin to a G20 summit in the Turkish resort of Antalya like an old friend. Ankara considers the need for early cancellation of Russian Federation imposed economic sanctions against Turkey in connection with the incident with the downed bomber Su-24.
Davutoglu reminded Moscow that Ankara refused to join Western sanctions against Russian Federation over Ukraine.
Putin said Russian Federation still can not comprehend why the downing of the plane happened, RT reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a broad global front against extremism.
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“These countries are in the deep freeze, which will make the U.S. job of brokering something in Vienna all the more hard”, said Gordon.
