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Moscow Courts Turkish Kurds, Outraging Ankara

MOSCOW-The Russian military escalated a war of words between Moscow and Ankara on Wednesday, suggesting the downing of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border in November was planned by the USA and Turkey.

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Turkish Prime Minister has cancelled a meeting with the Kurdish-issue focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a part of round of talks with all opposition parties at the parliament to get involved in dialogue over the preparation to forge a new constitution. Iraqi and Syrian Kurds, meanwhile, have accused Ankara of repeatedly bombing them in recent months, amidst their campaigns to defend against assaults from Daesh (ISIL/ISIS).


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The latest is that Russia has provided France with proof of Turkey’s support for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group operating in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said in Moscow Friday. However, 90 percent of them were aimed at moderate oppositions in Syria.


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Demirtas’ visit to Moscow comes amid soured relations between Turkey and Russia over the downing of a Russian jet last month. “But Nic.tr, a non-government body that administers addresses for websites using the “.tr” domain, including ministries, the military, banks and many commercial sites, said they originated from “organized sources” outside Turkey.

Gür also lamented that the government was trying to undermine HDP efforts to ease tension with Russian Federation and ensure that the people of Russian Federation and Turkey were not hurt by the diplomatic crisis, and criticized it for blocking alternative foreign policy channels. Another Russian trader also said sales to Turkey had resumed, and that there had been no informal restrictions from Moscow so far.

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The Spokesperson stressed that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had stated earlier that he would step down if ISIL oil smuggling would be confirmed, but Russian Federation has presented evidence on Turkish partnership in the smuggling, implying that it’s now Erdogan’s turn.

FILE- A civil defense member gestures toward a rebel fighter as they search for survivors at a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian Air Force in Idlib Syria Dec. 20 2015