RT | 5 Dec 2015 [AM editor’s note: US ‘officials’ have gone from rubbishing Russia’s allegations as “nonsense” to conceding that they are technically correct but “insignificant”. Next it will be claimed that yes it is significant but it was all part of the plan … Beam me up George Orwell]. The amount of oil…
RT | 2 Dec 2015 The Russian Defense Ministry has released evidence which it says unmasks vast illegal oil trade by Islamic State and points to Turkey as the main destination for the smuggled petrol, implicating its leadership in aiding the terrorists. The Russian Defense Ministry held a major briefing on new findings concerning IS funding…
RT | 2 Dec 2015 A Pentagon spokesman rejected Russia’s evidence of Turkey’s involvement in oil deals with Islamic State militants, calling Turkey a “great partner” just a day after his boss complained to Congress that Ankara was not fighting ISIS enough. “Let me be very clear that we flatly reject any notion that the…
Zero Hedge | 30 Nov 2015 “I’ve shown photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products,” Vladimir Putin told reporters earlier this month on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Antalya. Putin was of course referencing Islamic State’s illicit and highly…
RT | 2 Dec 2015 The US says Turkey’s operations are not “directed” at Islamic State and the Pentagon would like Ankara “to do more” both in the air and on the ground. It has also failed to control its borders “effectively,” Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told Congress. “I have been urging, actually, since…
Sputnik | 29 Nov 2015 In January 2014, Ankara Gendarmerie Major-General Ibrahim Aydin, former Adana Gendarmerie Brigadier-General Hamza Celepoglu and former Gendarmerie Criminal Laboratory Head Colonel Burhanettin Cihangiroglu stopped Syrian-bound trucks in southern Turkey after they received information from an anonymous source that the trucks were illegally carrying weapons to militants in Syria. When the information about the trucks became public,…
VT | 30 Nov 2015 Russia has received additional intelligence confirming that oil from deposits controlled by Islamic State is moved through Turkey on an industrial scale, said Vladimir Putin. President Recep Erdogan said he will resign if this is confirmed. LIVE UPDATES: Russia-Turkey relations sour after Su-24 downed at Syria border Moscow has grounds…
Michael Snyder | 27 Nov 2015 At this point, is there anyone that still doesn’t know that ISIS is selling hundreds of millions of dollars of stolen oil in Turkey? As you will see below, this is very much an open secret, but the mainstream media in the United States is being strangely silent about…
Atlas Monitor | 29 Nov 2015 Russian plane never violated Turkish airspace Turkey’s shoot down of a Russian military plane, for allegedly violating Turkish territory and by implication sovereignty, illustrates the idiotic logic and warped hypocrisy of Turkish President Erdogan and his allies. Turkey unilaterally claims control of 8km of airspace and 15km on the…
RT | 26 Nov 2015 A Turkish prosecutor asked a court to imprison the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper pending trial for espionage and treason. In May, the outlet published photos of weapons it said were then transferred to Syria by Turkey’s intelligence agency. Besides the editor, Can Dündar, the prosecution said it is seeking the…