How Russia could quietly retaliate against Turkey

There's no doubt in one security expert's mind that Russian President Vladimir Putin will exact revenge against Turkey for downing a Russian warplane near the Syrian border. The real question, according to Nihat Ali Özca at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, is how:

The option with the least fanfare — cutting off Turkey's supply of natural gas — could still seriously sting. Turkey gets "60 percent of its natural gas" from Russia, the country's "second-largest trading partner," The Guardian reports. With Turkey's "growing economy and little of its own energy supplies to fuel it," The New York Times reports that Turkey is heavily reliant — almost dependent — on Russia for natural gas imports.

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