One week after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syria border, President Obama continued his effort to refocus the battle against the Islamic State, while deescalating tensions between Russia and Turkey.
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US President Barack Obama has encouraged Russia and Turkey to reduce tensions, a week after a Russian warplane was shot down by Turkish jets.
“We have every reason to think that the decision to shoot down our plane was dictated by the desire to protect the oil supply lines to Turkish territory, right to the ports where it is loaded onto tankers”, Putin said during a news conference on the fringes of the climate talks in Paris. Obama also said that both sides in the middle east needed to try to de-escalate their conflict and not become distracted by the ISIS campaign.
Addressing a news conference at the US embassy in Paris with Erdogan, Obama reiterated USA support for Turkey.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has also condemned Russia’s stance on the issue, stating that Ankara will not apologize over the incident.
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the order imposing a package of sanctions on Turkey and limitations on specific Turkish exports.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Obama want to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, although he was elected and is still popular in Syria.
“We have been telling our Russian friends that their bombardments against civilians on our border is creating new waves of refugees which do not go to Russia or to any other country – but coming to Turkey”, he said. It came after the body was brought from Syria to Turkey and handed over to Russian diplomats. If the allegations were proved true, then he would resign, the president said.
The two-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meeting will review measures adopted in the fallout from the Ukraine crisis to upgrade readiness levels and reassure nervous eastern Europe members who were once ruled from Moscow that the alliance will stand by them.
“We don’t want to invest in tensions”. “We want peace to prevail at all costs, and we want the peace, which will prevail, to contribute to the peace which will be established in the region at a larger extent”.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the data would instead be used to combat terrorism. “Military channels existed and were meant to not allow such tragedies”.
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Stating that Russian citizens overseas did not face discrimination because of the annexation of Crimea, civil war in Ukraine and other incidents, Gudkov said: “So is Nazism reborn in Ukraine or Russia?”.
