Prime Minister says Turkey cannot be ‘brought to its knees’ by Russia

“They are explicitly abusing the incident”, said one European Union ambassador in Ankara.

With the war of words between the two nations escalating since the downing of the Russian jet by Turkey.

Dec 4, 2015- Russian President Vladimir Putin has castigated Turkey’s leaders, warning that they will regret shooting down a Russian Su-24 bomber in Syria.

The move, disclosed to Reuters by a USA official, is aimed at allowing just enough time for heightened Turkey-Russia tensions to ease.

If the Russian evidence is not enough, the U.S. 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. The audience included the widows of the pilot and of another serviceman killed in the episode.

The spokesman advised the American side to have a look through the videos, which were also presented by the Russian Defense Ministry, showing “how the tanker trucks not only drive through checkpoints at the Turkish border, but pass through them without even stopping”.

Turkish General Staff released the radar trace analysis of the Russian jet.

Market analyst group UkrAgroConsult determined that “Ukrainian wheat in the Turkish market has declined by 50 percent over the last five years to only 2.7 percent in the 2014/15 season”.

Putin called the incident “a stab in the back”. The TurkStream pipeline project could be affected, as well, a project intended as a way to transport natural gas to Europe without going through Ukraine.

But there is more.

As well as the sanctions already put in place, Russian Federation has deployed long-range air defense missile systems to Syria and warned that it would shoot down any aerial threat to its aircraft flying there. Russian Federation seemed to take that denial in stride, but after United States special envoy and coordinator for worldwide energy affairs, Amos Hochstein, said on Friday that the amount of oil smuggled into Turkey from Syria is “of no significance from a volume perspective”, Moscow appears to have had enough.

While Russia and Turkey continue to trade barbs over Syria, it is unclear what the unfolding situation holds in store for Israel as the Jewish state seeks to maintain its comparatively neutral stance on the civil war. In addition, a Russian naval base at Tartus, Syria, was cemented with an air base at another Syria city, Latakia.

“No one can blame Turkey, no one can expect an apology from Turkey”, Davutoglu said in the speech, which was televised on Turkish television.

After a December 1 meeting at the Paris Climate Conference, US President Barack Obama advised restraint to both Ankara and Moscow. “Restraint will be good for every party”.

Turkey on Saturday (Dec 5) said it was seeking alternatives to Russian energy as relations with Moscow plunge over the downing of a warplane, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing his country will “not collapse” under sanctions.