You can’t hope that economic sanctions will help in a time of global interactivity. “Those who believe that economic sanctions against an honorable nation like Turkey can bring it to its knees are mistaken”. However, Russia’s Defense Ministry has said the Su-24M plane stayed exclusively over the Syrian territory and “there was no violation of the Turkish air space”.
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Russian-Turkish relations became strained after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near Turkey’s border with Syria on November 24.
The TurkStream project was created to boost Russian gas exports to Turkey – but now there are doubts about its future, as Russia tightens sanctions. The shoot-down, the 1st time a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation country has downed a Russian aircraft in additional than half a century, sparked a bitter falling out between the 2 nations, which had developed strong economic ties.
Turkey refuses to apologize for downing the fighter jet, what it sees as defending its airspace.
The pipeline is set to transport 63 billion m of natural gas from Russian Federation to south Europe, passing through Turkey.
A Russian pilot, Oleg Peshkov, was shot down by militants on the ground in Syria after he bailed out of the plane. “Neither our conscience, nor our history, nor our morals could have allowed [the plane] to bomb innocent people by violating [their border]”, Davutoglu said.
Earlier this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin failed to meet in Paris during an ongoing climate change conference, despite a reported request from Ankara.
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Putin said that given a push to improve relations with Ankara in recent years, Moscow did not understand why its rival in the Syria war had downed its jet. “Turkey does not have any decision to impose any sanctions on Russian Federation”, the Turkish diplomat said. He again urged Russian Federation to be open to dialogue so the two countries can resolve the issue diplomatically.
