“Let me be very clear: as members of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation we’re absolutely with Turkey in objecting to the incursions into Turkish airspace there have been”, he said in an interview with BBC radio on Wednesday morning. “And they continue these actions, despite the fact that talking about their focus on the IG”, – said Wednesday on.Rossiya point start air strikes on targets in Syria IG.
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On Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned “some undesirable steps have been taken and it does not befit Turkey to accept this”.
With that in mind, Russia’s defense ministry said it agreed in principle with United States proposals on coordinating military flights in Syria.
President Vladimir Putin has said he will not send ground troops to Syria, where a civil war has led to the deaths of 250,000 people.
The Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, whose fighters have attended military training organised by the Central Intelligence Agency in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, was also hit last week by Russian raids as Moscow began its air campaign in support of Damascus. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was prepared to contact the FSA and asked Washington for information regarding the group.
The Russian ministry of defence admitted a plane had entered Turkish airspace as result of poor weather and had taken the necessary steps to ensure it would not happen again.
“There has been a substantial military build-up by Russian Federation with many different kinds of capabilities and forces, over the last weeks”.
The first violation of Turkey’s airspace was reported on Saturday and the second was on Sunday, officials reports added.
The strikes destroyed 20 vehicles and three weapons depots in Islamic State-held Palmyra, state television said, quoting a military source.
But Western powers have voiced disapproval of the Russian campaign, claiming that Moscow is indiscriminately targeting any rebel groups- not just ISIS- and propping up their ally Bashar al-Assad.
Senior regional sources say he has already been overseeing ground operations against insurgents in Syria and is now at the heart of planning for the new Russian- and Iranian-backed offensive.
Mr Fallon suggested the British Government was hopeful about “building a consensus” in Parliament to push for the extension of RAF air strikes against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria.
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On Tuesday, Prime David Cameron said he could not put a timescale on the vote, saying the government would “go back at a time when there’s a greater consensus across the House of Commons”.
