“We are not planning to engage in military sabre-rattling”, Putin told an audience in the Kremlin.
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Moscow deployed long-range air defense missile systems to its base in Syria 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the border with Turkey and slammed an array of economic sanctions on Turkey, including a ban on imports of fruit and vegetables and the sales of tour packages.
Last week, Washington accused Syria’s government of purchasing oil from Islamic State and imposed sanctions on a businessman with dual Syrian-Russian citizenship George Haswani, accusing him of facilitating oil trading between the Assad government and Islamic State.
“We will remind them not just once about what they have done, and they will feel sorry about it more than just once”, Putin said without spelling out what other actions Russian Federation may take.
– The government has stripped the Interstate Aviation Committee off its certification powers and ordered Rosaviation, Russia’s transport, industry and trade ministries to monitor certification of aviation equipment and airports. “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.
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner also rejected the Russian claims.
The TurkStream project would see four pipelines carrying Russian natural gas under the Black Sea, linking southern Russia to western Turkey. “According to information we’ve received, the senior political leadership of the country President Erdogan and his family are involved in this criminal business”, Antonov told reporters in Moscow.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Moscow of running a “Soviet propaganda machine” along the lines of the Communist Party mouthpiece daily Pravda.
“Let’s decrease tensions with our rhetoric”, Davutoglu said.
Russia and Turkey have been locked in a diplomatic confrontation since a Turkish jet fighter shot down a Russian bomber aircraft on the Syrian-Turkish border on November 24. Russia denied the charge.In the attack, a Russian pilot onboard the jet was killed.
Earlier, speaking at the global climate conference in Paris, added that the decision to shoot down the plane was a “huge mistake” and that he had not met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, despite them both being in Paris.
The authenticity of the video was not immediately clear, but Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed Thursday that the victim was Chechen and called for revenge.
A protester makes a peace sign as she reacts outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 after United Kingdom lawmakers voted 397-223 to launch airstrikes against Islamic State group in Syria.
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Putin said the military action has proven the capability of Russia’s modernized military.
