Putin not likely to target Islamic State soon, says Obama

“We’re expecting that the head of state, in all likelihood, could declare a freezing of Turkish Stream, or at least that some kind of timeout should be announced”, said one Gazprom source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Israeli defense establishment has conveyed messages to Russian officials in an effort to establish coordination of ground based operations in Syria, and to bolster the aerial, naval and electromagnetic cooperation already underway, Israeli news website Walla reported on Tuesday.

In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said similar ties between Russian Federation and Turkey had failed.

“As the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation have stated, we have serious concerns regardingRussian incursions into Turkish airspace”.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday accused Russian Federation of trying to “cover up” its infringement of Turkey’s airspace with “unfounded” claims that Turkey is illegally importing oil from ISIS. Without that, Zakharova said, joint action in Syria would not be possible.

He also raised the spectre of Afghanistan in warning Russian Federation against getting bogged down in its military campaign to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“We all have a common enemy, and that is ISIL, and I want to make sure that we focus on that threat”, Obama said.

Speaking during an interview with France 24 TV channel last week, Erdoğan also said he called Putin after the incident but the Russian president never returned his call.

In 2012 as the bloody conflict in Syria deepened, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies deployed Patriot anti-missile batteries along Turkey’s southern border to prevent any spillover of the fighting.

“As soon as such a claim is proved, the nobility of our nation requires [me] to do this”, Erdogan told reporters at the climate change summit in Paris on Monday.

Pro-Islamist demonstrators, holding a defaced poster of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, shout slogans during an anti-Russian protest in Istanbul, Turkey on November 27, 2015.

Moscow says Turkey shot down its SU24 warplane inside Syria on 24. Waxing optimistic about a new diplomatic effort in Vienna aimed at a ceasefire in Syria’s civil war, Erdogan said he hoped it would result in “sigh of relief for the entire region”.

Obama said the U.S.is working with Turkey on how to do a better job to seal Turkey’s northern border through which Islamic State fighters cross with relative impunity, and IS oil, sold to finance its terrorist activities, is exported to other countries. It is causing harm to both sides.

She also called on U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration to stand by its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally Turkey against the Moscow-imposed sanctions.

“Ultimately Russia’s going to recognise the threat that ISIL (the Islamic State group) poses to its country, to its people, is the most significant and that they need to align themselves with us who are fighting ISIL”, he added.