Eminently plausible. Turkey repeatedly refused John Kerry’s entreaties to block the Islamic State’s black market oil trade.
“Russia says Turkey ‘shot down plane for IS oil,'” BBC, November 30, 2015:
Russia has accused Turkey of shooting down its warplane near the border with Syria in order to protect its oil trade with the Islamic State (IS) group.
Speaking at international talks on climate change in Paris, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the downing of the plane a “huge mistake”.
Turkey has denied any ties to IS and is part of a US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the militant group.
The Turkish government has refused to apologise for the incident.
Russia has also been carrying out air strikes in Syria, targeting rebels against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including IS.
Turkey is a vehement opponent of Mr Assad and has been accused of turning a blind eye to jihadist fighters crossing from its territory into Syria.
Until a few months ago, Turkey was reluctant to play an active role in the coalition against IS. However, in August it allowed the US-led coalition to begin using its airbase at Incirlik….

BlueRaven says
what is it about the followers of Islam – makes no difference what flavor – that rots them to the core. Every Islamic child/man/woman start the process of deception. It appears to be DNA bi-coded.
What these idiots do not understand, that the West and Russkies can bring evidence on the table to back up their statements, which Turkish PM could not do. Each time they tell something false, they make clowns of themselves.
It is terrible lives the Muslims live through out the world.
miriamrove says
Just wait. Putin does not give a f…..I am sure he has something in mind for Erdogan. m
umbra says
Putin is biding his time by bombing more of ankara’s precious terrorist proxies in syria into smithereens. If and when turkey reacts by sending planes across the syrian border to challenge Russia, then that could lead to some roasted turkish f-16s. However, in all likelihood, erdogan will end up moaning and whining (while taking everything Putin dishes out up his rear end), because he lacks the cajones to directly challenge Putin militarily. Like all legendary islamic warriors, erdogan only initiates fights against the weak or the defenseless. When facing anyone else, he runs and hides behind nato’s skirt.
miriamrove says
If denials, excuses and blame games were to translate to money, every muslim on this planet would a billionaire many times over. M
BlueRaven says
I am certain, Putin will choose the right moment and deliver something for the Turkish PM that he aint going to like.
miriamrove says
Just wait. Putin does not give a f…..I am sure he has something in mind for Erdogan. m
jimmy says
Bilal Erdogan is the owner of the business involving the ISIS petrolum. Nothing else to add.
Falsafa says
…and this coming from the Russian leader who claimed that the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine with 298 souls on board was brought down by the US military…seriously?! is this the best Mr Spencer can do?
Godwin says
Most probably, MH370 was hijacked by US because it was carrying some advanced computer technology to China.
Everybody knows that MH 17 was shot down by Ukrainian rebels with Russian-made BUK missile.
faboutlaws says
This is a real big story. The website Zero Hedge has run several stories about it. Erdogan’s family is up to its ears in this. The US must have known about this for a long time. Before much about this oil scandal hit the papers and blogs, The US started destroying IS oil tankers. The US and Russia have taken out over 1300 tankers in the last three weeks. There are only so many tankers in the area. Warthogs are perfect for the job. They should also take out the refineries and other production facilities. JDAMS are perfect for this. You don’t want to completely destroy these assets because they belong to the peoples of Iraq and Syria. You want to just stop the oil flow. IS will be in big trouble without the money flow from it. Russia has dumb bombs so expect them to flatten everything because they lack pinpoint accuracy. But that’s the Russian attitude about everything.
I expect Congress to be looking into this very shortly. Erdogan is Obama’s good buddy and this is scandalous. This is a real opportunity to rub Obama’s nose in some muslim brown.
Angemon says
Duh – muslims apologizing? That’ll be the day…
mortimer says
Turkey is the enemy of all civilized countries. It’s the heart of Islam’s darkness.
Erdogan’s party is deeply duplicitous. Turkish racism is genocidal. They are trying to exterminate the Kurds.
Christianblood says
Turkey+Qatar+Saudi Arabia+USA=ISIS
May God be with Russia and give them victory over the global, genocidal islamic jihadists and their American backers!
Matthieu Baudin says
Is Ankara doing any more than paying lip service to the quarantining of Islamic State?
celticwarriorcanada says
The world really is upside down ! The only world leader today Truly Calling The BS For What it really is; is the former head of the notorious K.G. B. !!!
Baucent says
Putin will sometimes lie when it suits him, other times he is telling the truth. This time it is fairly likely to be “mostly true”. Did the Turks down the Russian plane to protect an illegal oil trade? That can’t be totally dismissed as the evidence is that oil tankers do pass through Turkey. That hundreds have been destroyed by Russian attacks is also true. If they didn’t transport oil through Turkey where else did it go?
Those drivers of the tankers were also likely to be Turks, another reason Turkey might feel angry over Russian attacks. The actual reason for the downing of the Russian aircraft was probably in part to protect their Turkmen brothers and part to provoke a spat with NATO and Russia.
Putin, probably a clever chess player, at the “feel good” Climate Change conference he chooses to turn the screws again on Turkey. Expect a satelite photo to be released soon by Russian showing a long caravan of oil tankers crossing the Syrian/Turkish border.
Plutarchus says
PUTIN OUTSMARTS ERDOGAN AND USES HIM TO SET UP NO-FLY ZONE OVER SYRIA AND BEYOND
Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for the article
Plutarchus says
The last person who called me a “little dick” was a neo-Nazi who was ridiculing my Jewishness and love for Israel. And I tell you what I told him. If you should have the misfortune of meeting me face to face you’d soon learn who was the “little dick.” For I’d make you suffer so badly that you’d be begging me to suck my dick to end the pain.
Aton says
Perhaps.
But the main reason was to protect the Sunnis of Syria (both ISIS and the moderates). And to protect the Turkomen Syrians in nothern Syria (who Russia was bombing at the time).
Turkey’s goal is to eradicate Assad and his Christio-Shia Alawite clan, and Russia is preventing that. In fact, Russia has done more to push back ISIS is a few weeks, then the US and UK in a couple of years.
Aton
Tony says
Putin is the only credible and strong leader in the world today. He makes the right moves and we are all too bothered about hurting minorities feelings. Go Putin. I’m behind him, the West needs to support him and Hollande f@@@ the no balls leaderships. We want to end conflict not drag it on for decades whilst thousands die.
The awful truth says
This story is confirmed here: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/01/muslim-woman-britain-paris-attacks but only in the comments that are more significant. A Turkish student/academic says that the plane was downed due to oil smuggling, not airspace violation. S/he is a more convincing source.
Baucent says
Former CIA chief Mike Morrell is on record saying two days ago, that Obama rejected a plan to strike ISIS controlled Oil infrastructure (including the 1,000 tanker trucks) as “it would cause environmental damage”. So the US commander in chief left the terror group with the goose and the golden egg which has funded untold terror over the last year. It took Putin and Russia to destroy those tankers and start “degrading and destroying” Islamic State’s economic base. Obama placing “environmental concerns” over choking the economic life out of this barbaric group is simply unbelievable. Quite frankly he is unfit to be President.
Joseph Pinto says
Putin have never delivered something good. He lives from porpaganda.
And, sadly, JihadWatch entered on this manoeuver…
Aardvark says
The correctly named Islamic State seems to be mainly funded by this oil trade. Why does the civilised West not simply bomb the wells, and put a stop to it?
Peter Hardie says
See this informative article which gives chapter and verse as to Turkey’s involvement with stolen Syrian oil in exchange for Turkish support
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-son-turkeys-president