Russia reveals satellite image 'proof' that Turkey is benefiting from ISIS oil trade - and even accuses Erdogan's FAMILY of being involved in the 'criminal business'
- Russian defence minister made the remarkable claim at a briefing today
- He accused the Turkish president's family of benefiting from the oil trade
- Anatoly Antonov, the defence minister, said Turkish leaders 'would not acknowledge anything - even if their faces are smeared with the stolen oil'
- For more news on the Russian claims visit www.dailymail.co.uk/russia
Russia has today accused the Turkish president's family of involvement in the illegal oil trade with ISIS - part of a black market enterprise which adds millions of dollars to the terrorists' coffers.
Speaking
to reporters in Moscow, defence minister Anatoly Antonov sensationally
revealed satellite images which, he claimed, showed tanker trucks freely
crossing the Syrian border into Turkey.
Mr Antonov also said Russia had seen evidence that Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are linked to ISIS oil.
His
comments come as both countries refuse to back down in an escalating
war of words following the Turkish army's downing of a Russian jet it
claims breached its airspace last week.
Pictured is what the Russian defence ministry claimed was rows of oil trucks crossing into Turkey
The ministry claimed the satellite footage proved Turkey was involved in the illicit ISIS oil trade
It claimed the footage was filmed from the skies above border crossings in ISIS-controlled Iraq and Syria
This photograph shows what appears to
be a border crossing, where the Russia claims ISIS-linked oil trucks are
passing into Turkey unimpeded
Antonov said today: 'President Erdogan and his family are involved in this criminal business.
'We
know the price of Erdogan's words. Turkish leaders won't step down and
they won't acknowledge anything even if their faces are smeared with the
stolen oil.'
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To
accompany his comments, his ministry released what it claimed was
surveillance footage showing dozen of trucks crossing into Turkey.
The
defence ministry officials showed the journalists what they said were
satellite images depicting thousands of trucks carrying oil from
ISIS-occupied areas in Syria and Iraq into Turkey.
They
did not, however, provide any evidence to back up the claims of
personal involvement of Mr Erdogan and his family in the illegal oil
trade.
Antonov claimed that ISIS militants make £1.33billion a year from the illegal oil trade.
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