A week after Turkey downed a Russian warplane, President Barack Obama has reiterated USA support for its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally.
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“We all have a common enemy, and that is ISIL”, he said.
Obama was frank about what both sides should do.
Dmitry Gudkov, MP from the party A Just Russia, criticized Monday the treatment of Turkish citizens in Russia following the downing of a Russian aircraft that violated Turkey’s airspace.
In the aftermath, the Russian government has imposed new sanctions on Turkey and its officials have discouraged Russians from traveling to the country.
“As soon as such a claim is proved, the nobility of our nation requires (me) to do this”, Erdogan told reporters at the climate change summit in Paris on Monday.
Referring to Islamic State as ISIL, Mr Obama said the group “is going to continue to be a deadly organisation – because of its social media, the resources that it has and the networks of experienced fighters that it possesses… for some time to come”. “Mr Obama expressed his regret over the incident with the Russian military airplane shot down by the Turkish air force in Syria”.
Obama said the U.S.is working with Turkey on how to do a better job to seal Turkey’s northern border through which Islamic State fighters cross with relative impunity, and IS oil, sold to finance its terrorist activities, is exported to other countries. He also praised Turkey for generously accepting refugees fleeing violence in Syria, and credited Turkey with strengthening security along its border.
On Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Russian Federation of trying to “cover up” its infringement of Turkey’s airspace with “unfounded” claims that Turkey is illegally importing oil from the IS.
“I need to ensure that people focus on such a risk”, he said.
The war on Assad is a smokescreen for efforts to assert USA control and to site a natural gas pipeline from Qatar through Syria.
“You don’t want to have World War III about what we’re talking about”, Trump said. One Russian soldier was killed in a rescue operation.
The resolution cuts the number of annual licenses for 2016 granted to Turkish cargo transporters by road to 2,000 with a prospect of cancelling them altogether. And that area is continuously bombed. The issue for Russia is that even though Putin opposes the Islamic State as a whole, especially after ISIS claimed it brought down the Russian flight that was over Egypt, Russia actually supports Bashar al-Assad, who is the Syrian leader. He said island nations might not be the most populous or influential, but remain vital to climate negotiations.
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“I’m an island boy”, said the Hawaiian-born president. “They have a right to dignity and sense of place and continuity of culture”.
