Turkey earns $2 Billion per year from ISIS oil
Group "Islamic State" earns about $ 2 billion a year from illegal oil trading, announced the Russian Defense Ministry.
Revenues from oil sales are one of the most important sources of funding for terrorists in Syria. They earn per year about $ 2 billion and use these funds for recruitment of combatants around the world to supply arms and military equipment.
Therefore ISIS defends so fiercely the infrastructure for oil which is under its control in Syria and Iraq told at a news conference in front of about 300 journalists the Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov quoted by TASS.
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He pointed out that the political leadership of Turkey is involved in the illegal trafficking of oil from Syria complement world news agencies.
Several days ago Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has information that confirms that the oil that comes from places that are under the control of terrorists on an industrial scale enters in Turkey.
Turkish President Erdogan even announced that he would resign if it is proved that his country had bought oil from the terrorists in Syria as Moscow claims.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are directly involved in the smuggling of oil to the organization ISIS, Antonov said, quoted by AFP and AP. The first user of this oil stolen from its rightful owners Iraq and Syria is Turkey has added the Deputy Minister.
According to the information received the leading political class which includes the president Erdogan and his family were involved in illegal traffic said Antonov.
Cynicism of the Turkish government is boundless, he said.
Chief of the operational management of the Russian General Military Staff Sergei Rudskoy said that every day the oil truck cisterns of ISIS carry 200,000 barrels of oil. He added that terrorists have at least 8500 oil trukck cisterns which carry those quantities of oil.
Russian air strikes in Syria for two months have destroyed over 1,000 oil tank cisterns of ISIS filled with Oil added Rudskoy. He added that due to the air strikes are incurred damages to about 40 oil refining plant.
Russian air hits to the oil industry of ISIS contributed to the double declining revenues of terrorists from illegal oil trade - from 3 million to 1.5 million dollars a day, said Rudskoy. He added that the coalition led by the USA does not strike road tankers and infrastructure facilities for illegal oil production controlled by ISIS in Syria.
Rudskoy reported that satellite images showed that oil tankers entering the territories under the control of ISIS in Turkey. There were three routes of supply of this oil from the territories ISIS to Turkey. That is why Erdogan and USA shot down SU-24 one week ago! Murderers for OIL!
Source: TASS, BTA, France Press, Associated Press.
