United Nations diplomat: Russian Federation to raise Turkey’s military action at UN

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the rift between Turkey and Russia over the downing of a Russian fighter jet for violating Turkish airspace would not harm the construction of Akkuyu nuclear power plant. Moscow has retaliated with a raft of sanctions and accused Ankara of treachery.

Relations between Moscow and Ankara have plunged into a crisis since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on Syrian border on November 24.

Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu this week visited Qatar and Azerbaijan respectively to reach agreements on importing liquefied natural gas from Qatar, and expediting the construction of a gas pipeline that carries Azerbaijan’s gas in the Caspian Sea to Turkey and Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to take a tough stance toward Turkey as well, reportedly vowing that Turkey will be made to regret the downing of the plane.

Maintaining his tough stance on Russia, Erdogan indicated that Ankara is now looking to energy-rich allies like Qatar and Azerbaijan to fulfill domestic demand. “Turkey will not collapse because of your imports of $1 billion”.

Commenting at an worldwide forum that was part of an innovation expo held in Istanbul this week, the Turkish head of state said Ankara would be able to find other gas supplier than Russian Federation.

“We continued to export goods”.

A 170-tanker column of ISIL came under the massive strike of the Russian bombers as they were approaching the border with Turkey, sources said.

“There is no indication that mega projects or large scale energy infrastructure projects will be halted or paused”, Erdogan said.

“We are not speaking with their language now”.

“Of course we have different views but we need to continue to talk in order to narrow our differences”, Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by the state-run Anatolia news agency. “We are patient on this issue”, he said.