Turkey projects blame for Daesh oil smuggling onto Russian Federation

Turkey has only just begun to feel repercussions for downing a Russian warplane last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned during his annual state of the union address Thursday, hours before the countries’ foreign ministers were to meet amid simmering tensions. Let those in Turkey know it who shot our pilots in the back, who hypocritically tries to justify themselves and their actions and cover up the crimes of terrorists, ” he said.

Russian Federation has accused Erdogan and his family of personally profiting from the oil trade with IS, which controls a large chunk of Syrian territory including many oil fields.

Less than a day after Russian Federation claimed to have published proof that Turkish trucks have been filling up with oil at its border with Syria – a claim the country denies – its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that he has proof that Russian Federation is apparently trading with Isis over oil.

“We have the proof in our hands”. “We will be reminding [them] again about what they’ve done and they’ll be regretting it – we know what to do”, he added.

Nine days after the incident, Moscow and Ankara still have starkly different versions of what happened, and Putin is furious Erdogan has not apologized for the episode, something the Turkish leader has said he will not do. He also promised more sanctions for Turkey over downing of the Russian jet.

Keen to avoid a repeat of a damaging 2013 parliamentary defeat over plans to bomb the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Cameron had made it clear he would not bring a vote to parliament if he did not think he could win it. “They earn around $2 billion every year, spending these funds on recruiting gunmen around the world and providing them with weapons, equipment and armament”, he added.

He had also said he did not want relations with Moscow to worsen.

The latest furious exchange comes as the two countries top diplomats met for the first face-to-face meeting between the two sides since the plane incident.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu were expected to meet briefly Thursday afternoon in Belgrade, Serbia, on the sidelines of an Organization for Security and Co-operation meeting, the Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported.

“They were called Pravda lies”, he said, referring to the daily newspaper that was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.