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Turkish F16s shot down warplane after it violated airspace - military official
reuters.com ^ | Nov 24, 2015 | Reuters

Posted on 11/24/2015 12:24:23 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Turkish F-16 fighter jets shot down a war plane of unknown origin on Tuesday after it violated Turkish air space close to the Syrian border and ignored warnings, a Turkish military official told Reuters.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: baddayputinistas; berlincalling; cryponazis; euroweenies; iran; mccainsbuttboys; nato; russia; syria; turkey; turkish; warplane
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To: Berlin_Freeper

If the plane fell on Turkish side of the border then Turkey would have a case. They shot down a plane leaving their airspace and over Syrian airspace after the fact - if ever the Russian plane was in Turkish airspace.


221 posted on 11/24/2015 7:53:34 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
If the plane was in Turkish airspace it was in the most remote part of it.

They should have let it go. The fact that they didn't says alot. Expect consequences.

222 posted on 11/24/2015 7:56:10 AM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: Trumpinator
You already gave the reason they were in the airspace.
Why were the Russian turds flying in Turkey’s air-space? To get at Turkey’s Islamist terrorists that’s why.

223 posted on 11/24/2015 7:56:25 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Justa
The US does not support ISIS and never has

Zero apparently disagrees with your take on this,

Creds just went down a few notches.

224 posted on 11/24/2015 7:58:34 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Get off it - you are as pleased as al-Qaeda that Muslims got the Russians.


225 posted on 11/24/2015 7:58:43 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: McGruff

Funny. Russia and their supporters spent many hours going on about how America would never stand for Russia getting involved in their sphere of interest.

Yet here you can’t equate that Russia would never allow another country’s warplane to fly through their airspace.


226 posted on 11/24/2015 8:02:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Trumpinator

Red on Red.


227 posted on 11/24/2015 8:03:07 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

And who would protect the Syrian Christians if not the Russians? And again, you root for the Muslims.


228 posted on 11/24/2015 8:05:37 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

You want a war with Russia. Congratulations, Turkey just might have started one.


229 posted on 11/24/2015 8:06:58 AM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: Trumpinator

You mean who would protect Russia’s oil interests.


230 posted on 11/24/2015 8:07:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: McGruff

I don’t want a war but you are quick to make one for Russia. Because what... Putin’s plane was shot down...boo-hoo.


231 posted on 11/24/2015 8:09:59 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: SZonian

“A Syrian insurgent group, recipient of U.S. Tow missiles, said its fighters hit the helicopter with an anti-tank missile while it was in the air and put out a video showing the helicopter being blown up after one of its fighters struck it with another missile.”

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0TD1KQ20151124

But good to be skeptical.


232 posted on 11/24/2015 8:23:59 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Justa

Did the US arm the FSA or not?


233 posted on 11/24/2015 8:29:17 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: GOPsterinMA; lodi90

” Putin has a lot more personal wealth to lose than any Soviet leader ever did”

Great point, and not to be ignored.


234 posted on 11/24/2015 8:43:43 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read)
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To: Justa

The US government has been funding and equipping these bastards despite what guys on the ground are doing.

We need to wake up to that fact.

I’m also a vet and did three tours. Not against ISIS but Islam all the same.


235 posted on 11/24/2015 9:12:56 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yes.


236 posted on 11/24/2015 9:22:30 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Trumpinator
These Turkmen's allaha akbar death chanting marks them as jihadis to me.

That video was filmed from the Syrian side -- those were not Turks.

237 posted on 11/24/2015 9:38:56 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: zipper

Syria has a Turkish population called “Turkomens”.


238 posted on 11/24/2015 9:47:06 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Trumpinator

Okay got it. Thanks


239 posted on 11/24/2015 9:49:57 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: zipper
These former Ottoman borders are all artificial and join up so many ethnicity and religions and sects. The break up of the Ottoman empire has been Europe's and the world's problem since the 1800s.

Some empires are "good" empires like the British and Romans and tend to leave the people and places they rule better off. But Turkey's empire was a horrible empire - built around Islamic slavery and fear. It will never be right over there as long as this fact is not realized and addressed.

240 posted on 11/24/2015 9:54:50 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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