Turkey, Russia ministers meet for talks after plane crisis

“We will reveal it to the world”, Erdogan said in a televised address in Ankara. They did not, however, provide any evidence to back up the claims of personal involvement of Erdogan and his family in the illegal oil trade.

Meanwhile, Russia Today has reported that Lavrov said he heard nothing new from his Turkish counterpart regarding Ankara’s position on the downing of the Russian warplane.

“We expressed our sadness and expressed our condolences for the Russian pilot who lost his life”, Turkish media quoted Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Belgrade, the first high-level talks between Moscow and Anakara since the Russian Su-24 was shot down on November 24.

The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey met on Thursday, the first high-level, bilateral face-to-face contact since the Turkish airforce shot down a Russian jet nine days ago, but there was no immediate word on the outcome of their talks. “We will hear what Mr Cavusoglu has to say”. In particular, Russian Federation has prohibited the import of some products from Turkey, including poultry offal and certain fruit and vegetables, effective from January 2016.

Mr Davutoglu again insisted Turkey did not know the nationality of the plane when it brought it down inside Turkish air space. A Russian marine also died trying to retrieve a second pilot.

“Work on formulating agreements on TurkStream is suspended”, particularly because “an intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation has stopped meeting” under Russia’s retaliatory measures against Ankara, Novak said.

Putin said in his speech that Russia’s air campaign in Syria, which started on September 30, is meant to fend off a terror threat to Russian Federation posed by militant groups in Syria.