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Obama: Turkey Has The Right To Defend Itself And Its Airspace
CNN ^ | November 24, 2015 | By Kevin Liptak

Posted on 11/24/2015 10:57:13 AM PST by Fennie

Washington (CNN) - Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter plane shouldn't lead to futher wartime escalation in the region, President Barack Obama insisted at a press conference Tuesday.

But he maintained Turkey had a right to defend its airspace and charged that Russian air activity near the Turkey-Syria border has been been an "ongoing problem."

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: iran; isis; israel; obama; russia; syria; turkey
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To: sunrise_sunset

Turkey invaded Cyprus illegally in 1974.


21 posted on 11/24/2015 11:08:01 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: achilles2000

It’s not his mental capacity. It is what side he is on. He is on ISIS’s and all things both Marxist and Islamofacist, side.

Don’t underestimate his intelligence. You shoot one of his ‘sons’ dead breaking Into your house he wants your blood. ISIS and allies shoots dead anyone protecting the west from Islamic invasion, he wants those protectors blood.


22 posted on 11/24/2015 11:08:11 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: silverleaf

“In fact the Russian target in Syria may have had Turkish “elements” there in Syria as part of the islamist rebel group”

Good point. From other reports I just read you are correct on the Turkish “elements”. Lots of things going on in that area.


23 posted on 11/24/2015 11:08:38 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Fennie
Obama: Turkey Has The Right To Defend Itself And Its Airspace

Uh, stupid, lazy, community organizer dumbass, the jet crashed in Syria, not Turkey. We only have the word of Turkey that it was even in Turkish airspace.

24 posted on 11/24/2015 11:09:16 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: gwgn02

Very helpful graphic.


25 posted on 11/24/2015 11:09:53 AM PST by Calpublican (Boehner minus the alcohol and orange spray tan= Ryan.)
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To: Fennie

Of course he would say that.


26 posted on 11/24/2015 11:11:05 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: CodeToad

{”A 17 second incursion of a disputed border and Obama claims Turkey gave 10 warnings? What, 1.7 seconds each??”}

B.O. is a pathological liar.


27 posted on 11/24/2015 11:11:11 AM PST by Calpublican (Boehner minus the alcohol and orange spray tan= Ryan.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Obama was probably behind this. Payback.

I really mean it.


28 posted on 11/24/2015 11:11:15 AM PST by dforest
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To: laweeks
But we can't defend our own border, huh, Obastardo!

Word for word, what I was thinking.

29 posted on 11/24/2015 11:11:19 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons.)
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To: Fennie
Obama is trying to draw the US into a shooting war with russia, and is trying to use turkey as an excuse.

His (obama) visceral hatred of the west, and the US is only exceeded by his fury at russia for embracing Christianity and rejection of his homosexual and anti-muslim policies.

30 posted on 11/24/2015 11:11:57 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Fennie

But he wants to take away our right to protect ourselves.


31 posted on 11/24/2015 11:12:22 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Parley Baer
Is/has Turkey violating Syrian air space? I believe they have been in the past. Obama sure has created a mess. Still a big mess in Libya. Yemen was supposed to be a model of Obama’s success. It is far from it.

When you let a man who has no experience at anything useful, and no knowledge of anything useful, run a country, it is pretty obvious that he will likely screw it up.

People have been telling Dumbo Barry how smart and how great he was all his life, and the man-child is just so ignorant that he believes his own delusions of grandeur.

To grab a line from that old proverb, "He knows not, and knows not that he knows not. "

Or in Obama's case, it is probably more accurate to say "He knows naught."

32 posted on 11/24/2015 11:12:55 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: dfwgator
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

I hope you do, because I can think of nothing more appropriate than that you suffer their fate as well.

33 posted on 11/24/2015 11:13:56 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Fennie

Turkey has the right to defend itself?

Well this is going to make getting Thanksgiving dinner a lot more sporting.


34 posted on 11/24/2015 11:14:38 AM PST by Fido969
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To: CodeToad

U No math.
U R not spose to No math.


35 posted on 11/24/2015 11:14:59 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Fennie

What did Obama go Barney Fife on them and just send them in with one bullet?


36 posted on 11/24/2015 11:16:22 AM PST by Fido969
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To: Fennie

Timing is too funny on the headline, 2 days before thanksgiving.

“Turkey has right to defend itself” - Obama


37 posted on 11/24/2015 11:17:12 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Fennie

Like Russia was attacking Turkey.


38 posted on 11/24/2015 11:17:59 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: ConservativeWarrior

39 posted on 11/24/2015 11:18:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Fennie

Did Bambi cover the fact that shooting the pilots in their parachutes is classified as two war crimes under the Geneva Convention?


40 posted on 11/24/2015 11:18:24 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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