Foreign press and diplomats invited to hear Moscow denounce ‘Turkish elites’ for stealing 200000 tonnes of oil a day and channelling funds to IsisAlthough Turkey may have replaced the US as Russia’s rhetorical enemy No 1,the animations playing on the giant screens in Moscow’s original “war room” complex hadn’t yet been updated: they still featured the glowing red outline of North America under laser-like lines that seemed to suggest crosshairs.
But an unexpected defence ministry briefing on Wednesday – the first such event for foreign media in recent memory – left no doubt who was in Russias sights. Sitting beneath the main screen, which now showed satellite images of the Turkish-Syrian border, or the deputy defence minister,Anatoly Antonov, accused Turkey of buying oil from Islamic State (Isis), and claimed the Turkish president,Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was personally involved in this “criminal trade”.
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Source: theguardian.com