Lavrov agrees to meet Turkish FM this week after plane downing

Cavusoglu said: “We are at a point where we do not want to be right now”.

“But if anyone thinks that after committing a treacherous war crime, the killing of our people, they will get away with (the ban on imports) of tomatoes or some restrictions on construction and other industries, they are deeply mistaken”.

He however added that nobody should consider this meeting breakthrough between Russian Federation and Turkey.

In October, Gazprom, the Russian state-owned natural gas corporation, said it would halve the amount of gas being funneled through the Turkish Stream pipeline, so that more could be transported in a separate pipeline that would not go through Turkey.

The top diplomats of Turkey and Russian Federation were set to meet for the first time since Ankara shot down one of Moscow’s warplanes as dozens of foreign ministers gathered in Belgrade on Thursday. “It is being prepared to become a Russian military base”, the military source said. The ministry insisted that the images definitively prove Turkey’s massive oil trade with the IS.

Erdogan hit back by saying he had evidence of Russian nationals being behind black market oil deals with the group.

Novak said in Moscow on December 3 that sanctions announced by the Kremlin have shut down “an intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation” that included talks on the pipeline project.

Ties between Russia and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Turkey have badly strained after Ankara last week shot down the Russian plane along its border with Syria.

“The Turkish minister confirmed the approaches previously voiced publically by both the president and prime minister of Turkey”.

The pilot was killed while parachuting to the ground, while the navigator was rescued by Russian and Syrian forces from the Syrian side of the border. “Perhaps there will be something new after what has already been said publicly”.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday labelled as “immoral” Russian claims that his family was involved in alleged oil dealings with Islamic State jihadists.

The two-day meeting in Belgrade is to focus on terrorism, the migrant surge in Europe and the Ukrainian crisis. high-level European officials joined by the US secretary of state John Kerry are attending the conference and have said that only a joint global response can be effective in countering the threat.

“On energy, Turkey is definitely more dependent on Russian Federation than what the consensus seems to portray”, Naz Masraff, director for Europe at political risk consultants Eurasia Group, said on Monday.