Russian President Vladimir Putin has allegedly sent a strong message to Umit Yardim, the Turkish ambassador to Moscow. The headstrong president warned the ambassador that Russia will cut all ties with Turkey unless Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stops facilitating the Islamic State in Syria, where Russia holds its last navy base in the Mediterranean Sea, according to American News.
The two-hour meeting between the Russian president and the Turkish ambassador was imbued with intense mutual resentment, with both asides accusing each other of grievances both past and present. Yardim, for one, laid the blame on Russia for Syria's bitter and protracted civil war, according to information obtained by The Moscow Times, reports AWD News.
"Then tell your dictator president he can go to hell along with his ISIS terrorist and I shall make Syria to nothing but a Big Stalingrad, for Erdoğan and his Saudi allies are no vicious than Adolf Hitler," the Russian president allegedly said during the meeting.
The Russian president further stated that he will not abandon the legitimate administration of Syria, and that he will continue cooperating with its allies such as Iran and China.
Russia has joined the fight against ISIS in Syria, and despite reservations from countries such as the United States about Russia's real goal in the war, Putin has consistently maintained that his goal is one thing and one thing only - the eradication of the Islamic State.
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