“It appears that Allah made a decision to punish the ruling clique of Turkey by depriving them of wisdom and judgment”, he said.
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After an intruding Russian SU-24 was shot down by Turkish F-16s near the Syrian border when it ignored a total of ten warnings in five minutes, Moscow announced a series of economic sanctions against Ankara and Russian President Vladimir Putin has alleged Turkish involvement in oil purchases from ISIL.
“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.
Russia’s Sergei Lavrov said he had heard nothing new from Mevlut Cavusoglu. Putin continued, saying “we must fight and eliminate them there, away from home”.
Accusing the Turkish leadership of supporting terrorism, Putin said Russian Federation is aware of who in Turkey was earning money from illegal oil trade and abetting terrorism, a agency reported.
Russia-Turkey tensions have risen since the downing.
The Defence Ministry stressed that Turkey is the final destination for oil smuggled from Syria and Iraq.
“It is not possible to explain Russia’s allegations by reason”, said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
“The ongoing and intense military effort by the Russians to prop up a dictator inside of Syria that is the root cause of so much chaos makes it a little ironic for him to be pointing the finger at anyone else”, Earnest said Thursday, adding that Washington “would welcome a constructive Russian contribution” to the U.S.-led coalition.
The Russian leader further stressed that Moscow’s anger over the jet downing is directed at particular individuals and not at the Turkish nation. Russian Federation says the plane, which was taking part in the Kremlin’s air campaign against militants in Syria, had not strayed from Syrian air space.
Thousands of Russian citizens from Chechnya, Dagestan and elsewhere have joined the Islamic State group in Syria.
“Modern Russian weapons have worked efficiently, and the priceless experience of its use in combat will be analyzed to help further improve our weapons”, he said.
“According to information we’ve received, the senior political leadership of the country – President Erdogan and his family – are involved in this criminal business”, Anatoly Antonov, a deputy defence minister, told reporters and several dozen foreign military attaches summoned at short notice to the army’s high-tech national defence command centre in Moscow.
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said the mission would have three components: to protect French naval operations, to provide intelligence though reconnaissance aircraft and satellite observation, and to offer logistical support like in-air refueling for allied planes.
They could be at each other’s throats until 2024 – the next presidential elections in Russian Federation are due in 2018 and Turkey in 2019 where Putin can pick up a new six-year mandate and Erdogan a five-year extension.
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This article was written by Vladimir Isachenkov from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
