Turkey’s patience wearing thin
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TURKEY’S foreign minister said Ankara’s patience with Russia “has a limit” after Moscow’s “exaggerated” reaction to a naval incident between the two nations, an Italian paper reported yesterday.
A Russian destroyer fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean on Sunday to avoid a collision and summoned the Turkish military attache over the incident.
“Ours was only a fishing boat, it seems to me that the reaction of the Russian naval ship was exaggerated,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told Italian daily Corriere della Sera in an interview.
“Russia and Turkey certainly have to re-establish the relations ... but our patience has a limit,” Cavusoglu said.
He said Russia had already “put itself in a ridiculous position” after President Putin alleged Turkey shot down the jet to protect oil supplies from Islamic State.
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