"Turkey vehemently opposes the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Russia is propping up the Assad regime."
"This kind of incident might ultimately have been inevitable, given the number of countries involved either directly or indirectly in the Syrian war. Currently, the United States, Russia, France, the Gulf states, Turkey and Israel are involved in one way or another in military activity in Syria."
""It's very much the last thing that's needed right now, especially in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, when there was hope that Russia could form an alliance with France and with the United States against ISIS," Gohel said. "This is going to complicate things. This is going to add unnecessary tensions that really weren't required at this critical juncture.""
"This is a situation that unfortunately was almost inevitable at some point, because Turkey has long been accusing Russia of interfering in their airspace," Gohel said. "They've threatened them in the past. And even though economic relations between the two countries are strong -- politically, there have been tensions recently.""
"In March of 2014, Turkey shot down a Syrian fighter jet after the warplane strayed into its airspace, according to then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan is now the country's president.
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Our F-16s went up in the air and shot that plane down. Why? Because if you violate my airspace, then from now on, our slap will be hard," Erdogan told supporters at a campaign rally in 2014.
But state-run media in Syria called it an act of "blatant aggression" and said the downed plane was over northern Syria at the time."
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loginTo me judging by this picture (if it can be assumed that it is legitimate) it doesn't seem like the bomber would be over turkish airspace even long enough for them to issue 10 warnings and then scramble fighters and hit the russian warplane... I hope Russia retrieves it's pilots soon before crazy islam get their hands on them.
The U.S. Needs to let turkey know that this is not ok, but what Obama will probably do is try his hardest not to get involved, indirectly giving turkey the greenlight to do it again and giving Russia the impression that we are ok with this and not on their side if conflict between russia and turkey breaks out.
Turkey is a nato country though so they will probably get a gift basket from the U.S.
