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Title: Putin: Russia will not tolerate such crimes as attack against its Sukhoi-24 plane
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Tass
URL Source: http://tass.ru/en/politics/838825un
Published: Nov 24, 2015
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Post Date: 2015-11-24 08:28:10 by cranky
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According to the president, the attack against Su-24 plane in Syria goes beyond normal struggle against terrorism, and it is "a stab in Russia’s back" delivered by "terrorism accomplices" SOCHI, November 24. /TASS/. Russia's Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was downed with an air-to-air missile launched from a Turkish F-16 fighter, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday. The Russian leader stressed that the Russian Su-24 fighter-bomber was posing no threat to Turkey. "Anyway, our pilots and jet posed no threat to the Turkish Republic. This is obvious. They were conducting an operation against ISIL," Putin said at the meeting with King Abdallah II of Jordan. Putin called the attack a crime and stressed that Russia would not tolerate it. According to the president, the Su-24 plane crash in Syria goes beyond normal struggle against terrorism, and it is "a stab in Russia’s back delivered by terrorist accomplices." "Today’s loss is linked with a stab in our back delivered by terrorism accomplices. I can’t characterize otherwise what has happened today," the Russian leader said. The Russian bomber was shot down over Syria by an air-to-air surface fired from a Turkish F-16 plane when the bomber was at an altitude of 6,000 meters at a distance of 1 km from the Turkish bomber." Putin said. The president said the attack on the Russian jet will have tragic consequences to Russia-Turkey ties. Turkey's military attache in Russia has been summoned to the Russian Defense Ministry. 
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#1. To: cranky, redleghunter, tomder55, sneakypete, Pericles (#0)
Turkey's military attache in Russia has been summoned to the Russian Defense Ministry. NATO's members have also summoned the Turks. I would guess they have some very pointed questions and will demand more evidence than just allegations by Turkey. It was unwise to extend NATO membership to Turkey to begin with. As members, if they start a war with Russia by shooting down their warplanes who did not attack anything or anyone in Turkey, NATO will still be obligated by Article Five to follow Turkey into warfare with Russia. I'm thinking NATO will make it clear they are not starting WW III with Russia even if a Russian plane strayed over the Turkish border, considering that no Turks or Turkish territory was attacked. There is a proportionality to any response.
I disagree... when Turkey joined NATO in 1952, it was a different world...
Our missiles in Turkey played a major role in the Soviet attempt to place missiles in Cuba, provoking the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy got out of a likely nuke war by promising secretly to remove those missiles from Turkey after six months. Which he did.
#10. To: TooConservative (#8)
So what? The Cuban Missle Crisis was 10 years later....
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest The president said the attack on the Russian jet will have tragic consequences to Russia-Turkey ties.
#7. To: TooConservative (#1)
It was unwise to extend NATO membership to Turkey to begin with.
If there was a mistake that was made, it was allowing NATO to justify its existance and redefine its mission after the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed. THAT was when NATO should've been disbanded as an unnecessary anachronism.
#8. To: Willie Green (#7)
I disagree... when Turkey joined NATO in 1952, it was a different world...
Replies to Comment # 8. Our missiles in Turkey played a major role in the Soviet attempt to place missiles in Cuba, provoking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In '52 friggin' STALIN was still the Soviet Dictator...
And old "Uncle Joe" makes Pooty-poot look like Mahatma Ghandi.
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