Russian, Turkish Foreign Ministers Meet in Serbia

Lavov also commented on Turkey’s that “Russian citizens are involved in the purchase of oil from IS” to say it was unusual they came only after Russia presented its claims that the Turkish president and his family are involved in this illegal trade. Davutoglu says his country can’t be “brought to its…” Turkish Stream would carry gas through Turkey and into southern Europe. Putin called Thursday for a broad worldwide front against terrorism and accused Turk…

Ahmet Davutoglu speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday again defended Turkey’s action and said Ankara would not apologize for “defending its borders”.

Davutoglu insisted Turkey did not know the nationality of the plane it downed inside Turkish air space.

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

“Those who believe that economic sanctions against an honorable nation like Turkey can bring it to its knees will be mistaken”, Davutoglu said.

He however added that nobody should consider this meeting breakthrough between Russian Federation and Turkey. Moscow has already banned some Turkish food imports as part of a wider package of retaliatory sanctions.

According to Lavrov, Kerry said that the USA will examine the reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense about Turkey and the illegal oil trade.

The Russian minister also stated that a list of opposition and terrorist groups in Syria should be made as soon as possible, as this was a requirement “without which it is impossible to continue the process”.

The Russian plane crashed in northern Syria and a crew commander, Oleg Peshkov, was killed by Turkmen groups while descending with a parachute.

“Neither our conscience, nor our history, nor our morals could have allowed (the plane) to bomb innocent people by violating (our border)”, Davutoglu said. “Let’s reinforce our friendship by not preventing our Russian friends from coming to Turkey but enabling more Turks to go to Russia”, he said.

Stating the high level of Azerbaijani-Turkish relations, Artur Rasizade noted the wide potential for development of cooperation in line with the demand of the time and stressed the importance of major projects implemented by both countries.