Turkey shot down Russian warplane to protect IS oil trade: Putin
Source: AFP
Le Bourget (France) (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State group to Turkey.
"We have every reason to think that the decision to shoot down our plane was dictated by the desire to protect the oil supply lines to Turkish territory," Putin said during a news conference on the fringes of UN climate talks near Paris.
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Response to riderinthestorm (Reply #16)
> Sorry, I don't do rumours.
> I've learnt the hard way that they might be untrue...
"Mission Accomplished"
"45 minutes"
"mobile chemical labs"
"I did not have sex with that woman"
"Isis sells smuggled oil to Turkey and Iraqi Kurds, says US Treasury"
(Financial Times, October 23, 2014)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6c269c4e-5ace-11e4-b449-00144feab7de,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=uk&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F6c269c4e-5ace-11e4-b449-00144feab7de.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independentsentinel.com%2F83798ca8c21ea939c7d529adbb090298&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app#axzz3skKhMxAh
"The Obama administration is struggling to cut off the millions of dollars
in oil revenue that has made the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria one of
the wealthiest terror groups in history, but so far has been unable to
persuade Turkey, the NATO ally where much of the oil is traded on the
black market, to crack down on an extensive sales network."
(New York Times, September 13, 2014)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/world/middleeast/struggling-to-starve-isis-of-oil-revenue-us-seeks-assistance-from-turkey.html?_r=0
"When US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in
eastern Syria in May, they made sure not to tell the neighbours.
The target of that raid, the first of its kind since US jets returned
to the skies over Iraq last August, was an Isis official responsible for
oil smuggling, named Abu Sayyaf. He was almost unheard of outside the upper
echelons of the terror group, but he was well known to Turkey.
From mid-2013, the Tunisian fighter had been responsible for smuggling oil
from Syria’s eastern fields, which the group had by then commandeered.
Black market oil quickly became the main driver of Isis revenues – and
Turkish buyers were its main clients."
"In the wake of the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, suspicions of an undeclared
alliance have hardened. One senior western official familiar with the
intelligence gathered at the slain leader’s compound said that direct
dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis members was now
“undeniable”.
There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,”
the official told the Observer. “They are being analysed at the moment,
but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound
policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.”
(Guardian, July 26 2015)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/isis-syria-turkey-us?CMP=share_btn_tw
"A former member of ISIS has revealed the extent to which the cooperation of
the Turkish military allows the terrorist group, who now control large parts
of Iraq and Syria, to travel through Turkish territory to reinforce fighters
battling Kurdish forces."
(Newsweek, November 7 2014)
http://europe.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920
You will note that I have omitted any of the recent accusations by the Russians
or counter-accusations by the Turks. This stuff - Turkey's support & sympathy
for ISIS - has been an open secret for years.
I know: "They did not buy that oil: they merely enabled the transport of it
to market and took an appropriate commission. Therefore they are innocent
of any implications arising from all those nasty coincidences."
