Russian Defense Ministry: Smuggling ISIS Oil Is Turkish President’s “Family”

On Twitter, the Russian embassy in the United Kingdom posted a map of what it said were oil routes from Syria into Turkey, an image of an octopus grasping dollar bills, and a claim that Erdogan had put “family members in lucratve posts” in energy firms. Turkey opposes Syria’s Assad regime, while Russian Federation intervened in the civil war to prop it up.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has rejected Russia’s accusations of illegal oil trade.

In early October, Turkey said it intercepted a Russian jet that violated its airspace.

“The main consumer of oil stolen from legitimate owners in Syria and Iraq is Turkey”. “The top political leadership of the country, President Erdogan and his family, is involved in this criminal business”. This is a brilliant family business!

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday no one had the right to “slander” Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State, and that he would stand down if such allegations were proven to be true. Turkish middlemen, supposedly without their government’s knowledge, buy oil from the Islamic State.

Erdogan went on to say on November 30 that if the claims prove to be false, Putin should be the one to step down.

However, he says, Russian Federation presented no evidence that Erdogan and his family were involved in such trade.

The Syrian president stressed that the only way to defeat the Daesh Takfiri terrorists is to “cut and suffocate their supplies, their armaments and money”, which come through Turkey with the support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

@LCarabinier, van Wilgenburg uses arrows to show how it would make more logistical sense for ISIS to smuggle oil to Turkey through ISIS-controlled areas – shaded grey – than through Kurdish-held areas, shaded orange.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on during a meeting with his Syrian counterpart Walid M …

“We need to gather around the table and talk, but no one should expect Turkey to back down on matters related to its air space, territorial waters and land borders”.

Putin said he believed the decision to shoot down the Russian fighter jet was meant to cover up Turkish involvement in the Isis oil trade, sparking a furious response from Erdoğan. The jet moved away when confronted by Turkish planes, Turkey said.

Some of the smuggled cargoes go to the Turkish domestic market, while some is exported via the Turkish Mediterranean ports of Iskenderun and Dortyol, the ministry said.

Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said Wednesday that Poland’s Defense Ministry is determining how Poland might help the coalition after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed for support during a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation foreign ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.

The fraud of Obama’s claims of “targeting ISIL” is well established by recent admissions and revelations about Turkey’s and US intelligence activities facilitating ISIS; and the admission by a former USA intelligence official that Obama left ISIL’s extensive “oil operations” untouched for 16 months until Russian Federation attacked them.