Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday.
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Erdogan said today “a famous Russian chess player” was also involved in the oil business with IS, without giving a name.
“But if someone thinks that after committing heinous war crimes, the murder of our people, it will end with tomatoes and limitations in construction and other fields, then they are deeply mistaken”, Putin said.
Cameron said the more than four-year Syrian civil war could not be resolved by military action alone, but that the strikes would “degrade” Islamic State militants – which he said should be called Daesh.
Russian Federation has already banned some Turkish food imports, including selected fruit and vegetables, as part of a wider retaliatory sanctions package. “Once again, we see that political considerations are getting the upper hand over objectivity and mere common sense”, Grushko reportedly said. “And evidently Allah made a decision to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by depriving them of their intelligence and reason”.
Erdogan has refused to apologise for shooting down the Russian plane, which Turkey says had strayed into its air space and ignored repeated warnings.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said he offered his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, condolences over the death of a Russian pilot, adding: “It would be unrealistic to say that the problem has been overcome”.
“Look, Russia has to prove that the Turkish republic buys oil from Daesh, otherwise this is a slander”, he added, using an Arabic acronym for IS extremists.
The Russian defence ministry yesterday claimed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family were involved in the illegal oil trade with IS.
Russian Federation is reinforcing a military airport in central Syria as a new base for its warplanes as government forces edge closer to Palmyra, a military source and monitoring group said Thursday.
The authenticity of the video was not immediately clear, but Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed Thursday that the victim was Chechen and called for revenge.
“They were called Pravda lies”, he said, referring to the daily newspaper that was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
Turkey has strongly rejected Russian allegations it has any links with Islamic State militants.
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Moscow says its main target is Islamic State, but most of its air strikes have hit other groups opposed to Assad, many of which are supported by US allies, including Turkey.
