Putin Sticks the Boot into Turkey in Annual Address

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his annual television marathon address to the nation, has been especially harsh towards neighbour Turkey.

Relations between Moscow and Ankara are at a nadir over Russia’s intervention in Syria, and Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian jet, which Putin said might have been done to “please the USA”.

“On the level of bilateral state relations I don’t see prospects to improve ties with the current Turkish leadership, but on a humanitarian level, I certainly do,” he said. 

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Source: Euronews