Oil smuggled into Turkey not enough to be profitable -US official
Fri Dec 4, 2015 10:53pm GMT
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON Dec 4 (Reuters) - The amount of oil being smuggled into Turkey from Syria was not enough for anyone to profit from it significantly, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, rejecting claims by Russia that top Turkish officials were benefitting by smuggling oil from areas of Syria controlled by Islamic State.
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