Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday, 4 December 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 03 Dec 2015 04:43 AM PST


Presidential candidate Donald Trump dropped bombshell after bombshell during an exclusive interview on the Alex Jones Show Wednesday, including calling President Obama out for worrying more about “man-made climate change” than both ISIS and our “pathetic, weak borders.”
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told Alex Jones the two would be “speaking a lot” in future after a surprise radio interview that rocked the political establishment earlier today.
The Donald joined Jones live from Trump Tower in New York City for a 35 minute discussion on everything ranging from Hillary Clinton’s corruption, to ISIS, to his most recent controversy about Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11.
At the end of the interview, Trump made reference to the mere fact of him appearing on the show, suggesting it would cause waves.
“I just want to finish by saying that your reputation’s amazing – I will not let you down – you will be very very impressed I hope and I think we’ll be speaking a lot but you’ll be looking at me in a year or two years, just give me a little bit of time to run things,” Trump told Jones.
“A year into office, you’ll be saying ‘wow I remember that interview, he said he was gonna do it and he did a great job’ – you’ll be very proud of our country,” added Trump.
Leftist journalists went into a meltdown as soon as they heard that Trump was about to appear on the show, just as they panicked over the fact that Trump dared to tweet out a link to Infowars last week, as well as quoting yours truly on Twitter.
‘Alex Jones’ also began trending on Twitter shortly after the interview began.
Numerous ‘progressive’ news outlets began bashing Trump for doing the interview within an hour of it concluding, with Obama White House front group Media Matters the first to pile in. ‘Right Wing Watch’ also labeled Jones an “insane conspiracy theorist”. Bloomberg also accused Jones of “promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories”.
Expect a deluge more hit pieces over the next few hours and days as the establishment tries to use Trump’s appearance on the popular but controversial radio show to discredit his candidacy, a tactic that has failed miserablyover and over again.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2015 04:29 AM PST

Australia plans to step up search efforts for the still missing Malaysian MH370 flight that crashed in March 2014. The search operation has yielded no results since then, but now Australia says its analyses showed they are looking in the right area.
Australia will double the number of vessels participating in the mission from two to four, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has said Thursday.
The country has been conducting an extensive, but, so far, unsuccessful search based on the jet’s likely trajectory after it diverted from its flight path on March 8, 2014. Ships have mostly focused on the seabed off Australia’s west coast, covering 75,000 square kilometers (29,000 square miles) of a 120,000 square kilometer target zone.
Now Truss has said that an area at the southern tip of that search area might be the right area.
Citing analyses of Inmarsat satellite communications data, he said: “It affirms that the aircraft is likely located somewhere in the 120,000 square kilometer area along the seventh arc.”
Truss stressed that the additional research was using a different methodology, but came to the same conclusions.
“That gives us real encouragement that every effort is being made to ensure the search is well focused and well targeted, and hopefully will therefore achieve someday a satisfactory result,” the deputy PM said, according to Asia One.
Assistant Minister for Defence Darren Chester has also told the media that there is “a high level of confidence that we are searching in the right area,” Reuters reported.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre has also gave encouraging prognoses, saying in a separate statement that “summer is expected to bring more favorable conditions over the coming months.”
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Posted: 03 Dec 2015 04:11 AM PST

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says Turkey will repent “more than once” the downing of a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkish border, stating that Moscow will not turn a blind eye to Ankara’s “aiding of terrorists.”
Addressing Russian lawmakers in his annual state of the nation on Thursday, Putin said Russia still cannot comprehend why the downing took place, adding that the death of a Russian pilot in the incident would have long-term consequences for those responsible.
He also censured “part of the leadership in Turkey” which engages in trade with terrorist groups in Syria and neighboring Iraq and is responsible for the Russian pilot’s death.
The Russian leader further stressed that Moscow’s anger over the jet downing is directed at particular individuals and not at the Turkish nation.
“We have many friends in Turkey. They should know that we do not equate them and part of the current Turkish leadership, which holds a direct responsibility for the deaths of our troops in Syria,” Putin said.
On November 24, Turkey shot down the Russian Su-24 bomber, which it claimed had entered its airspace – an allegation Russia strongly rejects. One of the two pilots was killed by Takfiri militants after parachuting from the plane while the other, held by the terrorists, was later freed in an operation by the Syrian Army. A Russian marine was also killed in the search and rescue operation immediately after the downing of the plane.
Putin stressed that the Russian operation in Syria is aimed first and foremost at preventing militants from returning home and mounting terrorist attacks on Russian soil.
Putin also called on all nations that have pledged to fight terrorism to join forces, and “not apply double standards on terror” or use terrorist groups for their own needs.
The Russian president reiterated that Russia believes that the Turkish leadership makes money from smuggling crude oil obtained by Daesh terrorist group in territories that the Takfiri group occupies in Syria and Iraq.
Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected as “Soviet-style propaganda,” Russian allegations that Ankara is in league with militants to smuggle oil.
“In the Cold War period, there was a Soviet propaganda machine. Every day it created different lies …This was an old tradition but it has suddenly reared its head again,” Davutoglu said.
On Wednesday, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Moscow is aware of three main oil smuggling routes to Turkey.
He added that Turkey is the main buyer of smuggled oil coming from Iraq and Syria.
“According to our data, the top political leadership of the country – President Erdogan and his family – is involved in this criminal business,” Antonov stressed.
Iraqi lawmaker Mowaffak al-Rubaie stated on November 29 that Daesh has made over $800 million dollars in black market oil sales in Turkey over the last eight months.
“This is Iraqi oil and Syrian oil, carried by trucks from Iraq, from Syria through the borders to Turkey and sold… [at] less than 50 percent of the international oil price,” he said.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2015 03:47 AM PST
Police identify one of California mass shooters as Syed Farook.
San Bernardino police have confirmed that two suspects, a man and woman, died during a gun battle with police officers following a shooting at the Inland Regional Center that left 14 people dead and 17 wounded.
The FBI is investigating the situation but have said they don’t know for sure if it is related to terrorism.
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said the two deceased suspects were “dressed in assault-style clothing, armed with assault rifles and hand guns.”
“We don’t have a motive. We don’t know ethnicity,” he added.
Chief Burguan said the shoot-out occurred after investigators went to an apartment in Redland where a vehicle was seen leaving. Officers pursued the vehicle and engaged in a shoot-out with the suspects, leading to the death of one male and one female. An officer was injured, but his injuries were not life-threatening, said the police chief.
A third person was seen leaving the area and was taken into custody. Burguan said it is not clear if he was directly involved in the attack and he has not been identified.
Police have since identified the two suspects, both Muslims and now thought to be the only ones, as Syed Raheel Farook, 28 and Tashfeen Malik, 27, it was announced at a press conference.
The Los Angeles Times said public records showed a person named Syed R. Farook was employed by the San Benardino County Health Department as an environmental health specialist, but “it was not clear if that was the same person involved in the shooting.”
A senior federal official told the LA Times that investigators believe one of the shooters left the party at the Inland Regional Center after getting into an argument and returned with one or two armed companions.
Several news outlets reported that an exchange was overheard on a law enforcement radio channel, with one official telling a dispatcher Farook “was at the meeting,” and then left “out of the blue.”
Farook “was acting nervous” and left the building approximately 20 minutes before gunfire erupted, according to the recorded transmission.
The Daily Beast reported that police executed a search warrant at a Redlands, California address belonging to Farook’s family.
Meanwhile, a man identified as Farook’s father said his son worked as a health technician inspecting restaurants and hotels.“He worked in a county office,” Farook’s dad told the New York Daily News. “He’s married and has a kid.”
Farook’s father said he hadn’t seen his son in some time as they are estranged.
“He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim,” the father said.
Burguan said police are still securing the Inland Regional Center because they have been delayed by a suspicious device believed to be an explosive. He also said some suspicious items found in and around the vehicle involved in the shoot-out are being investigated.
The violent incident occurred on Wednesday morning when shooters carrying long guns and wearing masks opened fire at around 11 am in a large conference room where San Bernardino County health department employees were gathered, according to witnesses and officials.
A black sport utility vehicle was seen fleeing from the office complex where the shooting occurred.
When asked what might have led to the shooting, Burguan said there had been some kind of dispute at the meeting, and that someone had left, but they don’t know if that person had been involved in the shooting.
“This is a very fluid active situation. We are still gathering facts,” said the FBI’s David Bowdich, the FBI’s assistant director in Los Angeles.
He said they were bringing in FBI resources and evidence teams and will enter the apartment cautiously, as they don’t know its contents or what devices might be left behind.
“This is a marathon not a sprint. Is this terrorism we don’t know that for sure. It is a possibility. We are not willing to go down that road yet,” Bowdich added.
Syed Rizwan Farook
Farook’s family was originally from South Asia. He had an older brother who had served in the US military.
Public records suggest possible turbulence in Farook’s younger life.
In 2006, Rafia Farook, who records indicate is Farook’s mother, filed in a Riverside court for divorce from her husband, also named Syed Farook.
She enumerated multiple instances of domestic abuse in the legal filing, and said her husband “threatens to kill himself on a daily basis.” During one incident, she said in a court filing, her son came between them “to save me.
Tashfeen Malik
The 27-year-old was believed to be from Pakistan and had lived in Saudi Arabia before coming to the United States.
She is is said to have married Farook two years ago, although the exact status of the relationship is unclear. The couple had a six-month-old baby girl, according to Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The couple left the baby with Farook’s mother in the nearby city of Redlands early on Wednesday morning. They told her they were going to attend a doctor’s appointment for the wife, Ayloush said.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2015 02:41 AM PST

Donald Trump was right all along.
Muslims were seen celebrating the 9/11 attacks in Jersey City and beyond. And even more disturbing than that, some of them knew AHEAD OF TIME that the twin towers were going to be attacked, according to statements made to reporters by the FBI in the days after the planes hit.
A news report has emerged that corroborates the claims alluded to by Trump over the past few days.
The report, which is a WCBS newscast broadcast 6 days after the attacks, details how FBI investigators revealed that some Muslim suspects living in an apartment building in Jersey City held a PRE-PLANNED rooftop party on the day of the attacks.

The task force investigators even stated that the suspects had a detailed model of the Word Trade Center, the type architects use, on the rooftop with them, along with binoculars.
“Calling this a ‘hot address’ the task force investigators ordered everyone detained. They saw something else: a model of the Trade Center on the roof along with sets of binoculars. The kind of model used by an architect or engineer for a presentation an investigator told me. “They knew,” he said, “that the planes were going to hit and they wanted a ringside seat.”
The report also details how the building in question was notorious for being the home of the terrorists who carried out the first attack on the WTC with a truck bomb in 1993.
The FBI investigators made a note of how they remembered the exact building from that investigation. They should know, of course, given that they ensnared the suspects into the attack through informants.

The WCBS newscast is almost identical to the Washington Post report cited by Trump after he was attacked by the media for making the claims.
From the Washington Post report:
…”In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.”
Not only does this corroborate the previously known fact that Muslims in Jersey City did celebrate the 9/11 attacks, it reaffirms that there was widespread prior knowledge that the attacks were going to happen.
If a group of unconnected people in Jersey city knew the exact target and time of the attacks before they took place, then it is simply unbelievable that the US government did not.
With the emergence of this newscast, detractors may once again claim that this only details a small group of Muslims celebrating, and not the hundreds or thousands cited by Trump and others.
However, other witness reports, such as this caller to the Howard Stern show reported “rioting” celebration by Muslims in the streets in Paterson, New Jersey.

Multiple witnesses reported this, including Carmine Sabia, the person who penned this report, posted on Infowars, which was retweeted by Trump himself last week, causing his detractors to go into meltdown on social media.

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Posted: 02 Dec 2015 09:22 AM PST

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has recognized George Soros’s Open Society Institute and another affiliated organization as undesirable groups, banning Russian citizens and organizations from participation in any of their projects.
In a statement released on Monday, prosecutors said the activities of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation were a threat to the foundations of Russia’s Constitutional order and national security. They added that the Justice Ministry would be duly informed about these conclusions and would add the two groups to Russia’s list of undesirable foreign organizations.
Prosecutors launched a probe into the activities of the two organizations – both sponsored by the well-known US financier George Soros – in July this year, after Russian senators approved the so-called “patriotic stop-list” of 12 groups that required immediate attention over their supposed anti-Russian activities. Other groups on the list included the National Endowment for Democracy; the International Republican Institute; the National Democratic Institute; the MacArthur Foundation and Freedom House.
In late July, the Russian Justice Ministry recognized the US National Endowment for Democracy as an undesirable group after prosecutors discovered the US NGO had spent millions on attempts to question the legitimacy of Russian elections and tarnish the prestige of national military service.
The Law on Undesirable Foreign Organizations came into force in early June this year. It requires the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Foreign Ministry to draw up an official list of undesirable foreign organizations and outlaw their activities. Once a group is recognized as undesirable, its assets in Russia must be frozen, its offices closed and the distribution of any of its materials must be banned.
If the ban is violated, the personnel of the outlawed group and any Russian citizens who cooperate with them could face heavy fines, or even prison terms in the case of repeated or aggravated offences.
The Soros Foundation started working in Russia in the mid-1990s, but wrapped up its active operations in 2003.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2015 08:14 AM PST

Startup culture and the “sharing economy” could be replacing the traditional American Dream of freedom of lifestyle choice and the ability to own a home, according to a new survey paralleling research conducted in 1986.
Young white Americans have become as hopeless regarding the “American Dream” as their non-white counterparts, according to a poll conducted among US 18 to 34-year-olds, a generation frequently referred to as “millennials.”
Compared to a previous, identical poll conducted in 1986, the results for white Americans fell to that of their non-white counterparts, whose responses remained constant within the margin of error. One curious observation the poll made was that ‘starting a business’ became the top definition of the American Dream, while ‘freedom of lifestyle’ formerly first on the list, did not make the top three.
“The numbers can’t tell us why, exactly. But we can ask ourselves whether, at this moment when young people continue to slog through the reverberations of the Great Recession-mounting debt, uncertain job prospects, stagnating wages, a generation of white Americans might be waking up to how the sausage of prosperity gets made,” the study release said.
The definition of what the “American Dream” means to young people also changed. While in 1986, “freedom of choice in how to live their lives” was the top response, in 2015 the top item became “[starting] a business of their own.”
Coupled with the decline in the “hope” of accomplishing the Dream, this could mean that people hope to be independent from employment but not free in how to live their life, hoping to starting a business but not becoming wealthy.
The change in values appears to have been influenced by startup culture and informal employment, relabeled as the “sharing economy,” that since the 2008 housing bubble appear to have replaced what former President George W. Bush called the “ownership society.”
Sharing Economy
Part of this could be linked to the emergence of a “startup economy,” which tentatively allows niche items to receive considerable funding, as well as the “sharing economy” popularized by services such as Airbnb and Uber, themselves startups.
However, it could also be the result of declining real wages in ordinary employment. The fact that becoming wealthy ranked last as part of the American Dream while starting a business was rated first could be an indication of this.
“Becoming wealthy ranked dead last—listed by just 29% of young people as very much part of the American Dream, down from 40% in 1986,” the survey said.
The increasingly informal employment, linked to deregulation and the collapse of manufacturing in the US following recessions in the 1970s, can be compared to Russia, where the post-Soviet industrial collapse in the 1990s led to the emergence of an unregulated “garage economy” recently uncovered and studied by the Higher School of Economics.
The future of this trend is not clear, however. While joining the relatively unregulated “sharing economy” has helped individuals weather (or “recession-proof”) economic crises, it has not become a driver of development.
Although it has been claimed that technological innovation in the sharing sector would replace capitalism, it has so far been driven by short-term gains as a result of reduced incomes for people providing the service, one tech industry CEO, Matt George has argued.
“To put it bluntly, the latest boom in our industry has come on the back of the underemployed and poor. Rather than using the tremendous wealth our companies have generated for our teams and shareholders, companies in our industry have leveraged driving wages down to drive valuations up. It can’t go on,” Matt George wrote.
It has been noted that the “sharing economy” has become a way to enable “coping with downward mobility,” without creating actual wealth outside of a handful of tech companies essentially engaged in finding new ways of collecting economic rent from jobs that already existed in the regulated capitalist economy.
The same has been argued by economists regarding Russia’s informal economy, which created “life support” for people who had lost their Soviet-era industrial jobs, but has not led to the creation of new economic drivers. It should be said that the introduction of services such as Uber did not “disrupt” Russia’s already heavily informal economy, as Russian taxi services already faced stiff competition from unlicensed drivers.
“This society is stable and mobile, but it is not developing,” one of the Russian study’s authors, Simon Kordonsky said.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2015 06:55 AM PST

On November 25, Russia sent the most powerful vessel of the Black Sea Navy, the Moskva cruiser, to the coastal area of Syria’s Latakia Province. The cruiser is equipped with Fort air defense system that is similar to Russia’s renowned S-300 anti-aircraft complex. Soon afterwards, Turkey sent two of its submarines, Dolunay and Burakreis, to the same area to watch the Russian vessel.
How should Russia react and what consequences this may entail? Pravda.Ru asked an expert opinion from military expert, former Deputy Commander of the Joint Group in the North Caucasus, Boris Podoprigora.
“Let’s proceed from the fact that no one needs the apocalyptic scenario. Most likely, this is a part of psychological warfare – Turkey and NATO are putting military pressure on Russia in an attempt to see how Russia will react,” the expert said.
According to the expert, Russia should not lose heart in this situation, nor should we fall into provocations. “We have clearly announced our stance on Syria, and we are conducting the operations that do not come across official opposition from the anti-ISIS coalition of the West. In a nutshell, we are on the right side. At the same time, we are aware of the fact that the anti-ISIS coalition consists of the partners that Russia is not friendly with. Russia must keep its eyes open. This is all that one can think of from the point of view of common sense,” Boris Podoprigora told Pravda.Ru.
Noteworthy, retired US Major General Paul Vallely said that Turkey’s attack on the Russian military plane was not connected with the efforts of the Turkish authorities to defend Turkey’s borders. Turkey shot the Russian plane down to show everyone that the country is the dominant force in the region.
According to Vallely, the attack on the Russian plane was of purely provocative character. As long as Turkey pursues the status of a regional leader, the country may take such steps in the future, he said.
The incident with the Russian aircraft has also shown that Turkey is not going to coordinate its actions with NATO, and this is the line that Ankara has been sticking to for a long time, Paul Vallely said.
According to the retired military man, Turkey is trying to establish the Ottoman Empire again. Turkey has been following its own interests for quite a while, disregarding both Russia and NATO, the general said.
NATO should exclude Turkey from NATO because Ankara refuses to help in the fight against the Islamic State, Paul Vallely said. Turkey cooperates with NATO when the country needs to achieve its own objectives., he added.
On November 24, a Turkish military aircraft attacked the Russian Su-24, as the Russian plane was returning from a mission to the Russian air base in Syria. The Turkish authorities claimed that Russian aircraft had violated Turkey’s airspace. However, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed out that the Su-24 was shot down in the skies over Syria. The incident ended with the death of one of the parachuting pilots and a Russian marine, who took part in the operation to rescue the Russian pilots. Turkey refused to even apologize for the incident.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2015 06:08 AM PST

Russia is now equipping its Su-34 fighters with air-to-air missiles in preparation for potential dogfights with NATO over Syria.
“Today, Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers have made their first sortie equipped not only with high explosive aviation bombs and hollow charge bombs, but also with short- and medium-range air-to-air missiles,” Russian Air Force spokesman Igor Klimov told RT. “The planes are equipped with missiles for defensive purposes.”
He also added the missiles are “capable of hitting air targets within a 60km radius.”
It’s obvious that Russia is not equipping its jets with air-to-air missiles to fight ground-based ISIS militants but rather to prevent Turkish F-16s from shooting down more of its planes.
Turkey, a NATO ally, shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber on Nov. 24, claiming it had violated Turkish airspace, but Moscow rejected the claim.
Numerous analysts also pointed out that even if the Russian jet did cross through the tiny strip of Turkey bordering Syria, it would have only been in Turkey for a matter of seconds.
“In the wake of the downing, President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a decree imposing a package of economic sanctions against Turkey,” RT reported. “The measures include banning several Turkish organizations and the import of certain goods.”
“Under the sanctions, the visa-free regime for Turkish nationals traveling to Russia will be suspended starting next year.”
Turkey responded by reportedly blocking Russian ships from passing through the Strait of Bosphorus linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, which prevents Russia’s Black Sea fleet from traveling to the rest of the world or even back to its home port.
But Putin has also ordered 150,000 Russian troops deployed into Syria while also sending another 7,000 Russian troops with tanks, rocket launchers and artillery to the Turkish border at Armenia with orders to be “fully combat ready.”
Even though Turkey initiated its stand-off with Russia by intentionally shooting down the Su-24 near the Syrian border, it could potentially invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty which requires all NATO members, including the U.S., to come to its defense if Turkey goes to war with Russia.
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Posted: 02 Dec 2015 05:26 AM PST

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.
Moscow has grounds to suspect that Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 on November 24 to secure illegal oil deliveries from Syria to Turkey, Putin said on the sidelines of the climate change summit in Paris on Monday.
“At the moment we have received additional information confirming that that oil from the deposits controlled by Islamic State militants enters Turkish territory on industrial scale,” he said.
“We have every reason to believe that the decision to down our plane was guided by a desire to ensure security of this oil’s delivery routes to ports where they are shipped in tankers,” Putin said.
Speaking in Paris on Monday, President Recep Erdogan said that he will leave office if there is proof of Turkey’s cooperation with IS.
“We are not that dishonest as to buy oil from terrorists. If it is proven that we have, in fact, done so, I will leave office. If there is any evidence, let them present it, we’ll consider [it],” he said, as quoted by TASS.
The countries from which Turkey buys oil are “well known,” said Erdogan.
He called on Russia to comment on the US’ recent black-listing of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation President, accusing him of “materially assisting and acting for or on behalf of the Government of Syria.” Erdogan alleged Ilyumzhinov had been dealing with Islamic State oil.
Terrorists have been abusing the visa-free regime between Russia and Turkey to move freely, the Russian leader said adding that Ankara failed to address the issue after Russia raised it.
“We have been asking [Ankara] for a long time to pay attention” to the threat posed by some terrorists active in separate regions of Russia, including the northern Caucuses, that have been “emerging on Turkish territory,” Putin said.
Moscow has asked Ankara to “stop this practice,” he added, but pointed out that “we have traced some located on the territory of the Turkish Republic and living in regions guarded by special security services and police that have used the visa-free regime to return to our territory, where we continue to fight them,” he added.
Answering a question as to whether Moscow wants to form a broad based anti-terrorist coalition, Putin said Russia has always supported this initiative, “but this cannot be done while someone continues to use several terrorist organizations to reach their immediate goals.”
Putin admitted that he was personally saddened by the deterioration of relations with Turkey. He explained that “problems do exist and they emerged a long time ago and we have been trying to resolve them in dialogue with our Turkish partners.”
Putin said he has heard Ankara’s claims that it was not Erdogan who made the decision to down the Russian jet. However, he stressed that for Russia “it doesn’t really matter” which official made the decision.
“As a result of this criminal campaign our two soldiers died – a crew commander and a marine, who was part of the rescue team of the [Su-24] crew,” he said, adding that Turkey’s actions had been “a huge mistake.”
Russo-Turkish relations have deteriorated in the wake of the downing of Russia’s Su-24 by Turkish jets over Syria on November 24. Russia imposed a package of economic sanctions against Turkey last Thursday, which included banning several Turkish organizations and the import of certain goods, as well as cancelling the visa-free regime for Turkish citizens travelling to Russia starting next year.
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit, Erdogan said that Ankara will act “patiently, not emotionally” before imposing any counter-measures.
Meanwhile, ahead of the summit, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stated that Ankara will not apologize “for doing our duty.”
Putin and Erdogan were hoped to meet at the environmental summit taking place in Paris, but Putin said that no meeting was held on Monday.
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