Turkey is making money from Islamic State’s illegal oil sales and Russian Federation “won’t forget those who shot our pilots in the back”, Putin said.
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“The Turks have been great partners” in fighting Daesh militants, said US Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, at a press briefing in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday. While it is impossible to give exact figures due to the lack of independent researchers in the area, Marcel believes that individuals or criminal groups were profiting from the kickbacks in the sale of ISIS oil – and not, as Putin suggests, the Turkish government.
Russia’s top brass on Wednesday accused the Turkish president and his family of personally benefiting from the illegal oil trade with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants.
Lavrov said he spoke to Cavusoglu the day after the Russian aircraft was shot down, but heard only what Turkey had already stated publicly and “just some excuses”.
Speaking at a Qatar University ceremony where he received an Honorary Ph.D.in Doha, Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the allegations about Turkey buying oil from Daesh as “slander”.
Russian Federation quickly said it would be forced to react to Nato’s expansion eastward, with the invitation to the small Balkan country adding to bad blood between Moscow and the West over a host of issues including Ukraine.
The ministry insisted that the images definitively prove Turkey’s massive oil trade with the IS.
He stressed that the United States did not stop the oil trade because it did not want to interfere with an ally.
While the Russians have yet to confirm the meeting, they have not rejected it outright.
Turkey and Russian Federation have significant economic ties, as well as in the aftermath of the event Moscow demanded visa requirements for Turkish visitors, and put limitations on commerce with Ankara.
Addressing Russian lawmakers in his annual state of the nation on Thursday, Putin said Russia still can not comprehend why the downing took place, adding that the death of a Russian pilot in the incident would have long-term consequences for those responsible.
With tensions riding high between Moscow and Ankara following Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border, Davutoglu said Moscow was again behaving in the same way. “You yourself know that, you must know that”, Putin said while presenting state awards to Russian military servicemen. The Russian leader refused to meet with Erdogan at a global climate in Paris, which they both attended Monday. “Nobody attaches any value to the lies of this Soviet-style propaganda machine”, he told a news conference before leaving on an official visit to Azerbaijan.
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Turkey seems mostly focused on bombing Kurdish separatists near its southern borders with Iraq and Syria.
