RT: ‘Commercial scale’ oil smuggling into Turkey becomes priority target of anti-ISIS strikes
Islamic State’s daring and impudent oil smuggling into Turkey should become a high-priority target in order to cripple the terrorist group, President Putin said, backed by French President Francois Hollande. Both agree that the source of terrorist financing must be hit first and foremost.
Commercial-scale oil smuggling from Islamic State controlled territory into Turkey must be stopped, Putin said after meeting Hollande in Moscow.
“Vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon,” said Putin, reminding the press that the scale of the issue was discussed at the G20 summit in Antalya earlier this month, where the Russian leader demonstrated reconnaissance footage taken by Russian pilots.
WNU Editor: Russia has now realized how important this oil infrastructure is to the Islamic State's finances. The fact that much of this oil goes to Turkey is probably an added bonus for these Russian pilots when they do their bombing runs. On a side note .... a German journalist who visited the Islamic State last year pointed out what would be necessary to defeat the Islamic State, and one of his recommendations was to close the Syrian - Turkey border .... Journalist who returned from Islamic State HQ tells RT how jihadists can be defeated (RT). it took a while, but it looks like that is Russia's strategy right now.