President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that Russia had no right to "slander" Turkey with allegations that it had bought oil from ISIS jihadists in Syria, AFP reports.
"No one has a right to engage in slander against Turkey by saying that Turkey is buying oil from Daesh [ISIS]," Erdogan said in comments broadcast by Turkish television on a visit to Qatar, after the Russian defense ministry claimed he and his family were involved in the illegal oil trade