Putin: Allah Is Depriving Turkey Ruling Elite of Wisdom

Turkey said it shot down the plane after it violated its airspace for 17 seconds despite repeated warnings, while Russian Federation has insisted that the aircraft has stayed in Syria’s airspace.

He also said his country would have liked to cooperate with Turkey on fighting terrorism before last week’s plane incident.

The pilots on board the fighter jet shot down near Turkey’s border with Syria bailed out, but one was shot dead, reportedly by rebel forces of the Free Syrian Army as he parachuted down.

Putin once again accused Erdogan of cooperating with Daesh and stressed that Russian Federation “will not forget this aid to terrorists”. We always considered and will always consider treachery to be the ultimate and lowest act.

Delivering his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, Putin said Russian Federation will not ignore what he described as Turkey’s “aiding of terrorists”.

The defence ministry said its surveillance revealed hundreds of tanker trucks gathering at Islamic State-controlled sites in Iraq and Syria to load up with oil, and it questioned why the U.S.-led coalition was not launching more air strikes on them. He added Turkey is funding “mercenaries, purchasing weapons, organizing inhuman terrorist attacks directed against our citizens, citizens of France, Lebanon, Mali and other countries”.

Russian Federation has escalated its dispute with Turkey by claiming to have evidence that proves President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from territory held by ISIL.

However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow would hand over to the United Nations and all interested countries solid proof of Turkey’s involvement in illicit oil trade with the fundamentalists.

“We will not rattle our sabers”.

“If someone thinks they can commit a heinous war crime, kill our people and get away with it, suffering nothing but a ban on tomato imports, or a few restrictions in construction or other industries, they’re delusional”, Putin told a Kremlin hall full of top Russian officials in a speech broadcast on national television. We are perfectly aware of what action is to be taken.

But the official announcement of the break-off in the talks dealt another blow to floundering Russian-Turkish ties, as Putin lamented the damage to a relationship that he has spent years nurturing.

President Vladimir Putin hit out at the Turkish leadership saying, that “Allah” was punishing their leaders by stripping off their “sanity” and depriving them of “intelligence”.

It would be the first time the men have met since the downing of the jet.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday accused Moscow of running a “Soviet propaganda machine”. Every day it created different lies.