Citruska-Turkish war

Russia will strengthen control over food supplies from Turkey, introducing additional checks on the border and in production. According to Interfax, this is stated in a statement by the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. Such measures, according to him, are necessary due to "repeated violations by Turkish manufacturers of Russian norms."

“The Ministry of Agriculture analyzed the situation and I informed the government that, unfortunately, an average of 15 percent of Turkish agricultural products does not comply with Russian norms,” Tkachev said. “I have been forced to state that about 40 cases of detection of the remains of prohibited and harmful substances in Turkish products of animal origin have been registered.” "In fruit and vegetables, a significant excess of the maximum permissible levels of the content of pesticides, nitrates and nitrites was also found," the statement said.

The fact that Russia will limit the import of goods from Turkey in response to the attack of the Su-24 bomber fighter of the Turkish Air Force was previously reported by the sources of Kommersant. The embargo, as in the case of the EU, the USA, Australia, Norway and Canada, will not be introduced, one of the interlocutors of the publication emphasized, in any case in the short term.

At the same time, as stated in the article, the FCS notifications that the Russian customs points “risk to Turkey” was introduced, Russian importers began to receive on Wednesday. This means that the customs service will refuse to issue declarations for products, the country of origin and the country of departure of which is Türkiye. If the inspector nevertheless decides to apply for a declaration for such products, he will need to agree on this with all functional departments, conduct a 100 percent inspection and take samples for checking the conformity of the goods to security and quality parameters, the source of Kommersant explained.

His words were confirmed by one of the major importers of fish. According to him, "the goods coming from Turkey from today simply got up at the checkpoints", and some cars at customs are already unfolding, realizing that Turkish products will be detained for an indefinite period at best, and destroyed in the worst.

Import from Turkey in the total volume of Russian food imports amounted to 4 percent in 2014. Over the ten months of this year, Türkiye brought food to Russia for $ 1 billion, mainly tomatoes and citrus fruits. In particular, in 2014, 366 thousand tons of tomatoes were imported from this country, which is 43 percent of the total import of tomatoes to Russia. Türkiye is also the largest importer of Russian sunflower oil and grain.

On Tuesday, the Su-24 Russian bomber was shot down by an air-to-air missile from the Turkish aircraft F-16. According to the Turkish General Staff, the plane, flying about 5 kilometers in the Turkish airspace, came out of it. The head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Russia, Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy, said that "according to the exact data of objective control" , the Russian Su-24 aircraft did not cross the border with Turkey .

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the incident , said that the damage from what happened "would be difficult to make up for." "His direct investigation may be a rejection of a number of important joint projects and the loss of Turkish companies in his positions in the Russian market," he emphasized.