“Allah must have punished Turkey’s ruling clique by depriving it of sense and reason”, Putin said.
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“Russia should have known that Turkey has the right to protect its borders will all possible means”, said Davutoglu.
The Kremlin dismissed these claims as “rubbish” and insists the aircraft had stayed in Syrian airspace, from where it is carrying out airstrikes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015.
“We won’t be rattling sabers”, he said.
“We shall remind them many times about what they’ve done, and they will regret what they’ve done for a long time”, he said.
Russian Federation has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of profiting from the oil trade with so-called Islamic State jihadists.
“The main consumer of this oil stolen from its legitimate owners Syria and Iraq is Turkey” Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told journalists at a packed briefing. “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 presentation was light on direct connections to Erdogan’s family, though with his family so deeply involved in Turkey’s energy industry, simply tracking the oil from ISIS territory to refineries inside Turkey is likely a start toward that end.
Russian Federation has taken steps aimed at hurting Turkey economically, including suspending a gas pipeline construction project. The ministry has presented data on the infrastructure of the illegal oil trade.
The Russian Defence Ministry provided maps on Wednesday claiming to show ISIL oil being smuggled into Turkey through PYD controlled areas, according to a reportin TRT World. Islamic State claimed responsibility for downing a Russian tourist plane in Egypt in October, killing 224.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan, urged Putin to tone down his language. The Russian pilot who survived the incident denied the plane was over Turkey, and Putin called the incident a “stab in the back”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to hold talks later Thursday with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on the sidelines of a conference in Belgrade after Putin on Monday snubbed Erdogan at the United Nations climate summit in Paris.
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The strikes have so far failed to dislodge the militants from a swathe of territory where they have proclaimed a Caliphate to rule over all Muslims, although Washington and its allies say they have helped halt the fighters’ advance.
