Moscow claims Turkey shot down plane to ensure oil exchange with ISIS.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he'll leave if Moscow can demonstrate its claim that Turkey shot down a Russian plane to secure its oil exchange with ISIS. "When such a case is demonstrated, the honorability of our country requires [me] to do this," Erdogan told columnists at the environmental change summit in Paris on Monday. Be that as it may, he included, if the assertions are untrue, then Russian President Vladimir Putin ought to leave. "I am asking Mr. Putin, would you remain?" Thus goes the raising war of words between the two countries which started after Turkish air ship shot down a Russian warplane close to its fringe with Syria on November 24. The pilot kicked the bucket. Turkey says the plane was in its airspace; Russia it was shelling ISIS targets.
Putin: Defending airspace a pretext:
On Monday, Putin alleged than downing the plane in the name of defending airspace was just a pretext.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he'll leave if Moscow can demonstrate its claim that Turkey shot down a Russian plane to secure its oil exchange with ISIS. "When such a case is demonstrated, the honorability of our country requires [me] to do this," Erdogan told columnists at the environmental change summit in Paris on Monday. Be that as it may, he included, if the assertions are untrue, then Russian President Vladimir Putin ought to leave. "I am asking Mr. Putin, would you remain?" Thus goes the raising war of words between the two countries which started after Turkish air ship shot down a Russian warplane close to its fringe with Syria on November 24. The pilot kicked the bucket. Turkey says the plane was in its airspace; Russia it was shelling ISIS targets.
Putin: Defending airspace a pretext:
On Monday, Putin alleged than downing the plane in the name of defending airspace was just a pretext.
"We
have recently received additional reports that confirm that oil from
ISIL- controlled territories is delivered to the territory of Turkey on
an industrial scale," he said, according to TASS news agency. ISIS is also referred to as ISIL."We
have all grounds to suspect that the decision to down our plane was
motivated by the intention to secure these routes of delivering oil to
ports where it is loaded on tankers," he said.Untrue, Erdogan said."It is obvious where we legally buy oil and natural gas from," Erdogan said, as reported by Turkey's Anadolu news agency. "Everyone must know that we are not that disreputable to make such a deal with terrorist organizations."
Taking Turkey's side:
In the bitter debate over where the Russian
warplane was flying when it was shot down, the United States took
Turkey's side Monday.
The available information indicates the warplane was in Turkish airspace, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said.
Also Monday, the body of the Russian pilot, Col. Oleg Peshkov, was flown back to Russia.
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