Turkey’s downing of one of Moscow’s warplanes, as he lashed out once
again at the leadership in Ankara over the incident.
“We will not forget this complicity with terrorists. We always
considered and will always consider treachery to be the ultimate and
lowest act. Let those in Turkey who shot our pilots in the back know
this,” Putin told lawmakers in his annual state of the nation address.
Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a furious war of words over
Turkey’s downing of a Russian plane along its border with Syria on
November 24, with Moscow accusing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
profiting from the oil trade with Islamic State jihadists.
“We know for example who in Turkey fills their pockets and allows
terrorists to make money from the stolen oil in Syria,” Putin said.
“It is precisely with this money that the bandits recruit mercenaries, buy
arms and organise inhuman terrorist acts aimed against our citizens, the
citizens of France, Lebanon, Mali and other countries.”
Russia has announced sanctions against Ankara banning the import of
some Turkish food and reintroducing visas for visitors from the country,
and Putin insisted Turkey would be made to regret its actions.
“We will not rattle our sabres. But if someone thinks that after
committing heinous war crimes, the murder of our people, it will end
with tomatoes and limitations in construction and other fields, then they
are deeply mistaken,” Putin said.
“We will not stop reminding them of what they did and they will not
stop regretting their actions.”
Putin said that given a push to improve relations with Ankara in recent
years, Moscow did not understand why its rival in the Syria war had
downed its jet.
“Only Allah, most likely, knows why they did this. And evidently Allah
decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by depriving them of their
intelligence and reason.”
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