Vladimir Putin has now accused Turkey of shooting down a Russian fighter jet to protect its supply of oil from ISIS.
He said that he had received information that indicates that ISIS oil was going via Turkey.
And he claimed that Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane near the Syria border last week was dictated by a desire to defend those supply lines.
Speaking at the global climate conference in Paris, Putin said the downing of the plane was a ‘huge mistake’ and that he had not met with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at a summit in Paris on Monday.
‘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 the climate talks.
This comes after the body of 45-year-old pilot Lt-Col Oleg Peshkov – shot down by the Turkish air force last week provoking a major diplomatic crisis between Moscow and Ankara – was returned to his homeland today.
There are claims he was killed by rebels after bailing out of his Su-24 bomber but the exact circumstances are still not clear.
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