Turkish president now claims Russian Federation is buying oil from Isis
“We are not planning to engage in military sabre-rattling (with Turkey)”, said Putin, after asking for a moment’s silence for the two Russian servicemen killed in the immediate aftermath of the incident, and for Russian victims of terrorism.
He added: “And evidently Allah made a decision to punish the ruling clique in Turkey, by depriving it of any reason or logic”.
The Kremlin dismissed these claims as “rubbish” and insists the aircraft had stayed in Syrian airspace, from where it is carrying out airstrikes.
The Russian leader said: “If they think that after committing heinous war crimes and murdering our people they will get away just with tomatoes and restrictions on construction and other industries, they are deeply mistaken”. “We have many friends in Turkey”, he said and added, “they should know that we do not equate them and part of the current Turkish leadership, which holds a direct responsibility for the deaths of our troops in Syria”, he stressed.
Lavrov said he “heard nothing new” from Cavusoglu. Allah knows why they did it (shoot down the Russian jet).
He said that oil “is transported to Turkey (from Islamic State territory) in industrial quantities along the “rolling pipelines” made up of thousands of tanker trucks”.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vehemently denied that his country was involved in oil trade with the IS, and has pledged to step down if Moscow proves its accusations.
After the shooting down of the Russian bomber by Turkey last week, the war of words continues between Moscow and Ankara.
Top defence ministry officials also accused Mr Erdogan and his family of personally benefiting from the oil trade with the ISIL, although they didn’t provide any evidence to back the claim.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says Turkey will repent “more than once” the downing of a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkish border, stating that Moscow will not turn a blind eye to Ankara’s “aiding of terrorists”.
A third route took oil from eastern Syria and western Iraq into the south-eastern corner of Turkey, the ministry said.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Moscow of running a “Soviet propaganda machine” along the lines of the Communist Party mouthpiece daily Pravda.
On the sidelines of the climate summit getting underway in Paris on Monday, the Russian leader snubbed Erdogan’s offer of face-to-face talks on the plane incident.
Putin said in his speech that Russia’s air campaign in Syria, which started on September 30, is meant to fend off a terror threat to Russian Federation posed by militant groups in Syria that include people from Russian Federation.
It is unclear how such a blockage would be enforced, or whether it would involve stationing Russian ground troops at the border.
Before being executed, the prisoner claimed to be a Russian national from the Chechen Republic named Magomed Khasiyev, and said he joined Daesh to spy for the Federal Security Service (FSB) in 2014.