/ world today news/ The Ministry of Defense of Russia gave a special briefing on Wednesday on “The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the fight against international terrorism. New data”, the world agencies report. Defense Ministry officials showed satellite photos showing sealed convoys of gasoline tankers filled with oil stolen by Islamic State terrorists. The photos clearly show that the final destination of the oil, which was acquired from Syrian territory, is Turkey.
The main user of Syrian and Iraqi oil from the Islamic State is Turkey, said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov.
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Revenue from oil sales is one of the most important sources of funding for terrorists in Syria. They earn about two billion dollars a year and use these funds to hire fighters around the world, to supply weapons and military equipment. This is why IS is so fiercely defending the oil production infrastructure it controls in Syria and IraqAnatoly Antonov also stated, quoted by TASS.
He pointed out that Turkey’s leadership was involved in illegal oil traffic from Syria, world agencies added.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are directly involved in oil trafficking with the IS organizationadded Antonov, quoted by France Press and Associated Press, BTA reported.
According to the information received, the ruling political class, including President Erdoğan and his family, are involved in this illegal traffickingAntonov added.
The cynicism of the Turkish government is boundlesshe said.
The head of the main operational department of the Russian General Staff, Sergei Rudskoy, said that the terrorists have at least 8,500 tankers to transport the hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil, TASS reported.
Russian airstrikes in Syria have destroyed over 1,000 IS oil tankers in two monthsadded Rudskoi. He added that around 40 oil refineries were damaged.
Russian strikes on IS’s oil industry have helped halve the terrorists’ income from illegal oil trade, from $3 million to $1.5 million a day.
Rudskoy commented that the US-led coalition does not strike gas tankers and facilities of the IS’s illegal oil production infrastructure in Syria.
He said satellite footage showed oil tankers entering IS-held territory in Turkey, Reuters reported.
According to Rudskoi, there are three ways of supplying this oil from IS territories to Turkey, TASS and Reuters indicate.
The press conference at the Ministry of Defense of Russia was covered by more than 300 journalists.
The Russian High Command used the occasion to call on the United States and the coalition led by them not to look indifferently at this illegal oil traffic from the Islamic State to Turkey and to destroy them in turn, BNR reported.
The Russian command is convinced that the downing of its SU-24 military aircraft in Syria by the Turkish Air Force last week was to ensure the security of the transportation of illegal oil by Ankara under the so-called “western route” of transfer in the Turkish ports located in the southeast and areas where it is sold directly to third countries.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said no one has the right to defame Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from the jihadists. Erdogan has indicated that he will step down if such allegations are proven. In a speech before the university in the Qatari capital Doha, the Turkish president also said that he does not want relations with Moscow to deteriorate even further.
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