Russia and Turkey: war in XIX century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_%281877%E2%80%9378%29#/media/File:Serio-comic_war_map_for_1877.jpg
Intolerable and repulsive the act of the tyrants that lead Turkey, with them horrible cumplicity with Daesh along the years of the intolerable war in Syria, in a moment of linkage between Russia, United States of America and France.
The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/24/turkey-shoots-down-jet-near-border-with-syria :
«Vladimir Putin has called Turkey “accomplices of terrorists” and warned of “serious consequences” after a Turkish F-16 jet shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday morning, the first time a Nato country and Moscow have exchanged direct fire over the crisis in Syria.
The Russian president, speaking before a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Sochi, said the plane had been shot down over Syrian airspace and fell 4km inside Syria. Putin said it was “obvious” the plane posed no threat to Turkey.
“Our military is doing heroic work against terrorism … But the loss today is a stab in the back, carried out by the accomplices of terrorists. I can’t describe it in any other way,” he said. Putin suggested the Turks were shielding Islamic State terrorists from Russian attacks, saying: “Do they want to make Nato serve Isis?”
In Washington, Barack Obama said that Turkey had a right to defend its territory and airspace, but called on all parties to “step back” and ensure the situation does not escalate.
Speaking at a joint press conference with his French counterpart Francois Hollande, the US president said that the incident underlined the shortcomings of Russia’s operation in Syria. “The problem has been Russia’s focus on propping up Assad rather than concentrating on Isil,” he said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State terror group.
“Russian airstrikes against the moderate opposition only help to bolster Isil. Russia could play a more constructive role it if shifts the focus of its strikes,” he said.
Obama and Hollande both repeated calls for Russia to participate in efforts to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis. “The sooner we agree to a political process, the less likely events like this will be,” Obama said.
Ankara and the Kremlin gave conflicting accounts of the incident, which appears to have occurred in an area near the Turkish-Syrian border straddling Iskenderun and Latakia.
The Turkish military said it scrambled two F-16 fighter jets after a plane entered Turkish airspace in the province of Hatay at 9.20am on Tuesday, warning it to leave 10 times in five minutes before shooting it down.
A government official said: “In line with the military rules of engagement, the Turkish authorities repeatedly warned an unidentified aircraft that they were 15km or less away from the border. The aircraft didn’t heed the warnings and proceeded to fly over Turkey. The Turkish air forces responded by downing the aircraft.
The Turkish UN ambassador, Halit Cevik, told the UN Security Council in a letter that two planes had flow a mile into Turkey for 17 seconds. “Following the violation, plane 1 left Turkish national airspace. Plane 2 was fired at while in Turkish national airspace by Turkish F-16s performing air combat patrolling in the area,” he wrote.
Russia’s defence ministry, in a series of tweets, confirmed that a Russian Su-24 had been shot down, but insisted the plane had never left Syrian airspace and claimed that fire from the ground was responsible. “At all times, the Su-24 was exclusively over the territory of Syria,” the defence ministry said.
“The Su-24 was at 6,000 metres and preliminary information suggests it was brought down by fire from the ground. The circumstances are being investigated.”
The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the assessments of other members of the alliance supported the Turkish version of events. “We stand in solidarity with Turkey and support the territorial integrity of our Nato ally,” he said.
A US official told Reuters initial indications were the Russian jets had been in Turkish airspace for a matter of seconds.
Late on Tuesday, the Russian defence ministry confirmed that one of the two pilots had died, from “fire from the ground”, RIA Novosti reported. The fate of the second pilot remained unclear. There was a further casualty during the rescue operation around the crash site area in Jabal al-Turkman in Syria’s northern Latakia province to find the two pilots.
“To evacuate the Russian pilots a rescue mission of two Mi-8 helicopters was sent to the spot. During the operation, one of the helicopters was hit by fire from the ground and had to perform an emergency landing. One of the marines died,” Lieutenant General Sergei Rutskoi of the Russian defence ministry told Russian journalists on Tuesday.
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