Speaking in his state of the nation address, Mr Putin called for “one powerful fist” to fight terrorism, hinted at more sanctions against Turkey and accused Western powers of creating “a zone of chaos”.
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“Iraq, Libya and Syria have turned into zones of chaos and anarchy which threaten the whole world”, he said. Answering a question on whether Moscow wants to form a broad anti-terrorist coalition, Putin said: “We always supported this”. Another noteworthy point was that “if a country has links with terrorists, especially if it finances them, hides them on its territory, supplies weapons to it – then it commits betrayal, acts very unwisely and recklessly”, Ivanov noted adding that Putin was talking about Turkey. “It is with this money that the bandits hire mercenaries, buy arms and organize inhuman attacks against our citizens”, Putin told the Federal Assembly in his annual state of the union address. “It appears that Allah made a decision to punish the ruling clique of Turkey by depriving them of wisdom and judgment”, Putin said.
Turkey claims the plane was in its airspace and ignored repeated warnings but Russian Federation insists it never crossed the border from Syria.
The meeting would be the first between senior officials from the two countries since Turkey downed the Russian warplane, touching off a crisis between the two countries that previously enjoyed warm ties.
Moscow has responded to the shooting down by deploying long-range air defence missile systems to its air base in Syria and slamming an array of economic sanctions on Turkey.
“We will not stop reminding them of what they did and they will not stop regretting their actions”.
“Actually, Russia does not believe this either”, said Erdogan, referring to the alleged oil trade with IS group.
Officials produced aerial and satellite photographs showing thousands of oil tanker lorries streaming from Isis-controlled oil wells in Syria and Iraq into Turkish sea ports and refineries.
In the interview, Mr Assad said the incident showed that his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had “lost his nerve” because Russia’s involvement had altered what was at stake. Islamic State claimed responsibility for downing a Russian tourist plane in Egypt in October, killing 224. “Every day it created different lies …This was an old tradition but it has suddenly reared its head again”, Davutoglu said.
“They can be an extremely constructive and important player in reaching a solution”, he said after talks between North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members in Brussels.
The two countries have been locked in an escalating war of words after Turkey shot down a Russian war plane on November 24, after claiming it had strayed into its airspace and had warned Russia about this.
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Erdogan said Thursday “a famous Russian chess player” was also involved in the oil business with IS, without giving a name.
