Kurds Deny Russian Claims That Turkey Buys IS Oil

If the Russian evidence is not enough, the USA and its allies should look at the footage from their own state-of-the art drones, “the number of which has recently tripled above the Turkish-Syrian border and oil-rich areas controlled by the terrorists, ” he said.

Tensions have risen between the two countries since the downing of a Russian jet by Turkish forces, although Erdogan has said he did not want to see relations with Russia worsen as a result.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has adamantly denied Russian accusations of Turkey’s oil dealings with Islamic State, yet ordinary Turks question his words and are not surprised by the evidence presented by Moscow. “The terrorists are using these receipts to recruit mercenaries, buy weapons and plan inhuman terrorist attacks”.

The official flatly rejected claims that Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally and partner in the anti-ISIL coalition, was involved in the black-market oil trade or any transaction with ISIL.

Putin’s comments came a day after Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said he was ready to meet his Turkish counterpart on the sidelines of a two-day Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conference in Belgrade.

“We have the proof in our hands”.

“But if anyone thinks that having committed this bad war crime, the murder of our people, that they are going to get away with some measures concerning their tomatoes or some limits on construction and other sectors, they are sorely mistaken”.

Turkey says the plane strayed into its airspace and ignored repeated warnings, while furious Moscow insists it did not cross from Syria and has accused Ankara of a planned provocation. “We will reveal it to the world”, the president said in a televised address on Thursday.

Russian Federation and Turkey have been enemies for more than 500 years and, during that time, they’ve fought 17 wars. Russian jets commenced separate military operation against Daesh and other extremists in Syria on September 30, following a request from Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Immediately after the speech Russian Federation s energy minister Alexander Novak announced the suspension of talks between Ankara and Moscow over the major TurkStream pipeline project.

“Allah only knows why they did it”, Putin told a vast assembly of the Russian political elite gathered in the hall of St. George, a majestic white marble room in the Kremlin.

The venomous rhetoric of Putin, who Thursday described the Turkish leadership as a “ruling clique” deprived of common sense, and the Turkish leader’s defiant refusal to apologise will make it hard to paddle back. One remaining Russian ship may leave Monday.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks to the media during a visit to northern Cyprus, December 1, 2015.

Not only didn’t Cold War II happen, French President Francois Hollande, who promised “merciless” revenge in the aftermath of Paris attacks, met with Putin and they agreed to form an alliance against Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.

“They were called Pravda lies”, he said, referring to the daily newspaper that was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.