UN diplomat: Russia to raise Turkey’s military action at UN

This was after the pilot of the attack aircraft did not respond to multiple warnings from Turkish military units.

Erdogan has publically stated that Russia was “playing with fire” if Turkish nationals visiting the country were subject to abuse and mistreatment, but these threats have done little to reign in angry Russian officials.

“What I have not seen is imagery of the border crossing with trucks crossing the border, and that’s because I don’t believe that exists”, the official added.

“The economics don’t make sense for that to happen”, the official said.

Three main routes of oil smuggling to Turkey have been established.

In his first state of the nation address after Russian Federation launched military intervention in Syria against ISIS, Vladimir Putin kept his focus on Turkey rather than terrorism.

Russian Federation is bombing Syria outside the U.S.-led coalition.

Accusations between the two countries grew after Turkey shot down a Russian military jet last week.

As multiple nations continue to carry out airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said defeating Islamic State won’t be possible without finding troops to fight on the ground.

The consequences of this public spat, however, potentially play out much worse than simply a lack of fresh Turkish fruit on the shelves of Russian grocery stories.

Nobody wants war, but Putin has to be met with resistance.

On a visit to Russian Federation in November 2013, Erdogan even suggested Turkey could join the Moscow and Beijing-led security group the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and join Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union, moves that could have scuppered Turkey’s long-standing EU membership bid.

On Tuesday, leading up to the Ministry of Defense’s announcement of evidence, the embassy tweeted that Turkey shot down Russia’s plane in order to defend its ISIS oil links.

Certain militay steps were taken, such as deploying surface-to-air missiles to Syria, but these are defensive decisions taken to support Russian operations in Syria, not to set the stage for a forthcoming offence against Turkey, Korybko said.

While in theory the USA and all other NATO member states are treaty-bound to come to Turkey’s defense in case of war with Russian Federation, the chances that the Americans would be willing to risk NY for Ankara are “smaller than small”, the report noted, as reported by ValueWalk on Thursday. It has reinforced its bases in Syria and intends to build a new military base there.

Turkey and Russia have always been in a proxy war in Syria: Russia, together with its quieter partner, China, supports the Shi’ite Iran-backed Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad; and Turkey explicitly supports Assad’s Sunni opponents [“moderate” jihadists] – apparently in the hope of building a Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas-type of regime in Damascus that would be friendly to its own Islamist government.

Relations between the two countries have been strained after Turkey downed a Russian bomber jet last month.

Its photos posted recently include alleged ISIS oil-smuggling routes in the country, images linking Turkey’s president to the militants, and a cartoon of an octopus grabbing fistfuls of cash.

The author also reminded of Syrian rebels killing one of the pilots as he parachuted from the fighter jet as well as one of the Russian marines sent to rescue him. It is pursuing a policy that could tie Turkey’s hands in Syria.