I’m not so sure of that. The area it crashed in was Syrian. Turkey apparently has made it’s own no-fly zone in Syrian airspace due to Syrian forces taking shots at Turkish forces and that’s possibly where the encounter took place.
I just watched the answer on Fox. the Russian plane flew across a peninsula of turkey that protrudes into Syria. It is narrow.
If it was shot in turkey, it had momentum that carried it the short distance across the protrusion back into Syria where it spun in.
Further, the protrusion is Turkish but the Syrians claim it. I’m putting forth the thought that the Russians used Syrian maps that didn’t identify the territory as Turkish. On the TV map it is all plain as day.
I’m not so sure of that. The area it crashed in was Syrian.
****************************************
After the aircraft was hit by a Sidewinder from one of the F-16s, it was still flying when going down. It crashed around 2 miles (or kms) beyond the Turkey border and the two pilots who ejected came down in Syria.
Saw the radar tracking of the SU-24 on TV this afternoon and it was flying in Turkey’s airspace.