Putin Latest: Russian President Putin signs sweeping economic sanctions against Turkey

Russian President Putin signs sweeping economic sanctions against Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for in a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, in this file picture December 1 2014. Putin signed a decree imposing economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, four days after the killing Turkey down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border.Moscow signed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a sweeping law to impose economic sanctions on Turkey, and relations between the two countries strongly after that shot down a Russian Turkey on the Syrian border this week warplane.Turkey has said it shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber, part of the objectives of the deployment of Russian air force struck in Syria, because the plane crossed briefly in Turkish airspace, a charge denied by Russia.A Russian Navy pilot sent to rescue him were killed in the incident on Tuesday, Russia confirmed its first combat deaths since the publication of the air force in Syria for more than two months.Putin, who called the attack "a stab in the back" again hit with sanctions, they are pointing their guns more than 30 billion $ (US) in trade relations between the two countries.The draft penal code, posted on the Kremlin, targeting the tourism sector in Turkey, cancels visa-free travel between the two neighboring countries, and prohibits many Russian companies to employ Turkish citizens and blocks imports of some Turkish goods. It is expected to submit lists of goods and exceptions prohibited from imposing new sanctions on Monday, the Russian government agencies.The consequences will be painful, especially in the Turkish tourism industry. More than three million Russian tourists visit Turkey each year, many of whom travel on all-inclusive, and leave the resort for a week, starting from $ 1,000 per hour per couple, including airfare. Putin on Saturday prohibits charter flights to Turkey and ordered travel companies not to sell trips to the country.He said Russian Finance Minister Alexei Ulyukayev earlier this week that the sanctions also freeze some prestige projects between the two countries, including a joint venture to build the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, the Turkish line of Russian gas pipeline called Turkstream. Putin signed a gas deal with Turkey in December after the European Union ban on the pipeline.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov Putin's personal, splurge on Russian national television on Saturday that Turkish companies were "ringing alarm bells" because of the coming sanctions.Revealed shoot down the fault lines between foreign powers to intervene in Syria has been going on four years of civil war, in spite of the common opposition of the Islamic state.He called on the West, including NATO ally Turkey, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down as part of the process of political transition, while Moscow and provided him with cover diplomatic and military.Turkey targeting Russian plane this week, Moscow has also been shelling rebel group fighting against the Assad with Turkish support.For some Russian national, the name of Turkey quickly became a curse. In one incident this week, the population of the Ulyanovsk city tore down the Turkish flag flying over Turkish Efes beer factory and its flag-raising portable Russian troops by air instead. On Saturday, President of the "Turkish chorus," said Mikhail Turetsky Moscow radio station that the musical act has changed its name at the moment. Said Turetsky, which literally means the Turkish title, he also was considering taking his wife's name.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to allay Russia after the incident, saying it was "sad" by dropping the plane. But he also said he would not apologize for Turkish pilots following orders. Erdogan and asked to speak with Putin in Paris on Monday, when both leaders will travel to the summit of the UN Climate Change in 2015.Putin shrugged off calls Erdogan, said his press secretary, because Erdogan did not apologize for the incident. Putin has not said whether he will talk with Erdogan in Paris.