Let me spell it out for you with the facts, Bleispriester:
Fact One:
A
Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian
Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft near the
Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015.
[3][4] According to Turkey, the aircraft—whose nationality was unknown at the time—was fired upon while in Turkish
airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres (1.36 miles) for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading 10 times over a period of five minutes before entering the airspace.
[5][6] The
Russia Defence Ministry denied the aircraft ever left Syrian airspace, counter-claiming that their satellite data showed that the Sukhoi was about 1,000 metres (1,100 yd) inside Syrian airspace when it was shot down.
[7] The
US State Department said that the US independently confirmed that the aircraft's flight path violated Turkish territory, and that the Turks gave multiple warnings to the pilot, to which they received no response and released audio recordings of the warnings they had broadcast.
[8][9] Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan pointed out that Turkey had the right to defend its airspace.
[10] Russian president Vladimir Putin said that the US knew the flight path of the Russian jet and should have informed Turkey; two US officials said that Russia did not inform the US military of its jet's flight plan.
[11]
The Russian pilot and
weapon systems officer both
ejected from the aircraft. The weapon systems officer was rescued;
[1] the pilot was shot and killed by
Syrian rebel ground fire while descending by parachute.
[12] The shooting of an ejecting aircraft pilot is in contravention of Article 42 of the 1977 additional protocol of the
Geneva Convention.
[13] A Russian
naval infantryman from the search-and-rescue team launched to retrieve the two airmen was also killed when a rescue helicopter was targeted by the rebels and crewmen inside killed by ground fire.
[12][
clarification needed]
The shootdown was the first destruction of a
Russian or
Soviet Air Forces warplane by a
NATO member state since the
Korean War.
[14][15][16] Reactions to the incident included denunciation from Russia and an attempt to defuse the situation by NATO afterwards. Russia deployed the guided missile cruiser
Moskva armed with
S-300F (SA-N-6 Grumble) long-range
SAM missiles off the Syrian coast near
Latakia[17] and
S-400 (SA-21 Growler) mobile SAM systems to
Khmeimim airbase. In response, the
Turkish Armed Forces deployed a land-based Radar Electronic Support System (R-ESS) developed by Turkey's
ASELSAN rendering the effective range of Russian SAM's out of reach of Turkey's airspace. The Turkish jammer systems also allegedly interfered with Russian aviation navigations, radars and military communications.
[18][19][20]
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fact 2 - Erdogan refuses to apologise to Russia and stands his ground and states it is Putin who needs to apologise :
Erdogan: Turkey won't apologize for downing Russian jet - CNN.com
(CNN)Turkey will not apologize for downing a Russian fighter jet it says violated Turkish airspace near the Syrian border, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an exclusive CNN interview Thursday in Ankara.
"I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us," he said from the Turkish capital. "Those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize. Our pilots and our armed forces, they simply fulfilled their duties, which consisted of responding to ... violations of the rules of engagement. I think this is the essence."
In a meeting with community leaders in Ankara, Erdogan said, "If the same violation occurs today, Turkey has to react the same way."
Fact 3: Putin vows serious consequences:
Fact 4: June 27th, 2016 Erdogan finally apologises:
Erdoğan has apologised for downing of Russian jet, Kremlin says
Erdoğan has apologised for downing of Russian jet, Kremlin says
Statement cites Turkish president as saying Ankara ‘never had the desire and the intention’ to down warplane....
Fact 6: Erdogan mistakenly believes that this late apology will somehow appease Putin. Less than a month a later we see Fact 7 come to pass.......
Fact 7:
Military coup attempted in Turkey against Erdoğan government
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returns to Istanbul amid chaos on streets and says he remains in control, blaming ‘treason’ on a faction within armed forces
Is it treason? No, NATO is fully in control and behind the scenes with their own folks including CIA. NATO is notorious for playing both sides - same goes for CIA & Vatican. NATO is letting Putin have his revenge in ousting Erdogan but first gets an agreement to permit him to stay once the two pilots are blamed for the coup. Watch what happens next......
Fact 8:
Turkish pilots who downed Russian jet arrested over coup plot
Turkish pilots who downed Russian jet arrested over coup plot
Vladimir Putin expressed support for his Turkish counterpart after coup attempt.
By
HORTENSE GOULARD
7/19/16, 3:12 PM CET
Updated 7/19/16, 3:18 PM CET
Two Turkish pilots accused of shooting down a Russian plane near the Turkish-Syrian border last November were arrested in the wake of Friday’s failed military coup, AFP reports.
The downing of a Russian jet by Turkish military
caused a diplomatic row between the two countries, with Russian President Vladimir Putin calling it “a stab in the back,” until Moscow and Ankara
agreed to restore relations last month.
“Two pilots who were part of the operation to down the Russian Su-24 in November 2015 are in custody” over links with the failed coup, a Turkish official told journalists.
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Final word...... if Erdogan believes that selling out his two pilots - playing along with NATO advising him - will appease Putin's wrath? He's sadly mistaken. I don't believe this is over yet.....
