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Wednesday 02 Dec 2015 - 13:19 Makkah mean time-20-2-1437
Moscow, (IINA) - Russia alleged on Tuesday that it possessed evidence of Turkey's oil trade with ISIS but declined to share the information, Anadolu Agency reported.
Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the data would instead be used to combat terrorism. “What is important now is not to have this information and use it to prove something but to use it in fighting terrorism”, he told reporters in Moscow. “This information is being used in fighting terrorism”.
Peskov's remarks came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan challenged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to prove his claim that Turkey was involved in buying oil from Daesh.
Putin had claimed Turkey shot down a Russian military jet last week because it was targeting the oil trade between Turkey and ISIS. Turkey maintains the SU-24 bomber was shot down after ignoring repeated warnings that it was violating Turkish airspace.
Erdogan said he would step down if Russia could prove the claim about oil and called on Putin to do the same if he could not.
“As soon as such a claim is proved, the nobility of our nation requires [me] to do this”, Erdogan said. “I will not remain in this post. But I am asking Mr. Putin, would you remain?”
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