Russia’s UK embassy is trolling Turkey on Twitter over the country’s alleged
Top Defense Ministry officials also accused Erdogan and his family of personally benefiting from the oil trade with ISIS, although they didn’t provide any evidence to back the claim. “We are patient on this issue”, he said.
“We know who are stuffing pockets in Turkey and letting terrorists prosper from the sale of oil they stole in Syria”, Putin said in a televised address to over 1,000 delegates of the Russian Federal Assembly Thursday morning.
The incident marks the first time a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation country has downed a Russian plane in more than half a century, sparking a bitter quarrel between the two nations, which had developed robust economic ties.
The footage has emerged just days after a war of words over Turkish alleged links to ISIS’s oil trade broke out between Vladimir Putin and the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Immediately after the speech Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak announced the suspension of talks between Ankara and Moscow over the major TurkStream pipeline project.
Putin said Russian Federation still can not comprehend why the downing of the plane happened, RT reports.
Russian Federation insists no violation took place and has accused Turkey of supporting terrorists in Syria.
“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”. “Israel has very real security concerns, such as Russian weapons falling into Hezbollah’s hands”.
Turkey’s detention of Russian ships had been rare before this month, according to data on the website of the port control agency, which monitors actions at Black Sea ports. “I don’t believe that there is significant smuggling, between ISIL-controlled areas and Turkey of oil in any significance in volume”, Hochstein said.
“The highest political leadership of the country – President Erdogan and his family – are involved in this criminal business”, Antonov said.
Davutoglu reminded Moscow that Ankara refused to join Western sanctions against Russian Federation over Ukraine.
Mikhail Mizintsev, head of Russia’s National Center for Control of Defense, said the Defense Ministry would unveil more information next week about arms sales and terrorist training on Turkish soil, according to Pravda.
While Putin has repeatedly said Russian troops in Syria won’t engage in ground combat, the statement signaled the high degree of the Russian military’s involvement in coordinating Syrian army action.
World leaders have urged both sides to avoid escalation.
“The foreign minister is giving constant information on all of his meetings to the president”, Peskov said. On Wednesday, the Turkish president said he would step down if the allegations were proven true. USA officials broadly acknowledge its support has been vital to the U.S.-led campaign in Syria, allowing the coalition to stage strike missions out of a Turkish air base.