Russian President Vladimir Putin again accused Turkey of profiting from an oil trade with IS.
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“98 km of the border is under Deash control, physical barriers are being setting up here”, he said, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
“Russia’s Sovietic stance – that we thought it had forgotten – is coming back bit-by-bit”, he said.
The two-day meeting in Belgrade is to focus on terrorism, the migrant surge in Europe and the Ukrainian crisis. He called for cooperation and the establishment of an anti-islamic militant coalition under the aegis of the United Nations. “That means no shelter to bandits, no double standards, no contacts whatsoever with any terrorist organizations, no attempts to use them for some selfish goals, no criminal, bloody business with terrorists”.
“The main customer for this oil stolen from Syria and Iraq is Turkey”, said Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov.
Turkey shot down the Russian aircraft last month after it said the jet crossed from Syrian to Turkish airspace, a claimed denied by Moscow but backed up by the United States.
Putin had on Monday said the reason Turkey downed a Russian warplane last week was that it wanted to protect supplies of oil from Islamic State.
Ankara said the plane moved into Turkish airspace and received ample warning; Moscow denies both assertions, saying the aircraft was downed over Syria.
Currently, there are no signs of any rapid recuperation of the ties between the two countries. “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”, Mr Putin said.
Russian Defense MinistryDefense ministry officials sit under screens with satellite images on display during a briefing in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2015.
“No one has the right to make such a slander as to suggest that Turkey buys Daesh’s oil”.
But President Barack Obama and other senior US officials have also voiced frustration in recent days at lingering gaps in security along a roughly 100 km (62-mile) stretch of Turkey’s border with Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State.
Erdogan on Thursday claimed that the largest dealer for the IS oil is a Syrian who also has a Russian passport.
After the shooting of the Russian plane, which caused the death of one pilot, the Turkish President told journalists today that problems such as the one between Turkey and Russia “should be solved diplomatically”.
On Thursday, the Turkish leader made a mirror accusation, claiming Turkey had evidence of Russian involvement in oil trade with Isis.
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He attacked Turkish leaders for the shooting down of the Russian jet on a bombing mission in Syria, saying “only Allah knows why they did it”. President Francois Hollande cited specific threats against French interests stemming from the Islamic State group in Syria.
