Special to WorldTribune.com Russian President Valdimir Putin on Dec. 17 continued his verbal assault on Turkey while NATO moved to contain mounting tensions. In his annual news conference before some 1,400 reporters at a Moscow conference center, Putin hinted that Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 in November in an “arrangement” with the United States […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Nov. 30 said he would resign if Russian President Vladimir Putin could prove Turkey was protecting its oil commerce with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “I will say something very strong here,” Erdogan, in Paris for the climate change summit, told state-run Anatolia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 26 said the United States had been given the precise flight path of the Su-24 that was shot down by Turkey. “The American side, which leads the coalition that Turkey belongs to, knew about the location and time of our planes’ flights, and we were hit […]