Iraqi Kurds have called the Ministry of Defense for its oil tankers shown LIH – RBC

Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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On the published by the Russian Ministry of Defense photographs captured a tanker carrying oil from Iraq’s Kurdish Autonomous Region (CAR) in Turkey, and not machines banned in Russian group” Islamic State ».

On this, as the newspaper writes Daily Sabah, chairman of the Energy Committee of Parliament of Kurdish autonomy in Iraq Sherko Jawdat.

«Our natural resources ministry announced earlier that hundreds of oil tankers deliver oil from the CAR in Turkey. Explanations of Russia based on incorrect sources. We categorically reject the Russian charges, “- said Jawdat.

The aggravation of relations between Moscow and Ankara, entailing mutual accusations of collaboration with terrorists, followed after November 24 Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber .

Speaking at a climate summit in Paris on November 30, President Vladimir Putin said that the attack on the Turkish Air Force Su-24 could have been motivated by the desire to secure oil supplies from the territory of the IG in Turkey. In response, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was ready to resign if the allegations are proven.

2 November the Ministry of Defense announced that “irrefutable evidence” of the involvement of Turkey’s oil supplies from the territories controlled by the outlawed Russian organization “Islamic State” (IG). The Defense Ministry believe that the Turkish authorities and personally President Tayyip Erdogan involved in the extraction and transportation to Turkey oil from areas of Syria and Iraq, which are controlled by the IG.

The military showed pictures of columns and clusters of oil tankers, according to them for delivery oil to Turkey are three main routes: the Western (the Turkish ports on the Mediterranean), the north (to the refinery in Batman in Turkey) and the east (to the staging post in the Turkish town of Cizre).

Erdogan said libel and confirmed that he was ready to resign, if the purchase of crude oil from Turkey LIH be proved. US Department of State also rejected Russian accusations that the Turkish authorities are involved in the smuggling of oil militants of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (banned in Russia) through the Turkish border. According to State Department spokesman Mark Toner, Washington has no such evidence. “We refute allegations that the Turkish government in cooperation with LIH engaged in supply of oil across its borders,” – said Toner. “We do not see any evidence of the prosecution,” – he said.