Posted on 11/24/2015 6:06:29 PM PST by jazusamo
President Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on the need to reduce tensions after Turkish jets shot down a Russian warplane flying near the country's border with Syria, the White House said Tuesday.
Obama voiced support "for Turkey's right to defend its sovereignty" during a phone call with Erdogan, according to a White House statement.
"The leaders agreed on the importance of de-escalating the situation and pursuing arrangements to ensure that such incidents do not happen again," the White House added.
U.S. and NATO officials said Tuesday the Russian jet entered Turkish airspace, according to the Associated Press.
The incident angered Russia, which claimed the plane did not cross the border from Syria into Turkey.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the downing of the plane a "stab in the back" and accused Turkey of abetting terrorism.
Russia and Turkey, a NATO ally of the U.S., are already at odds over the fate of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a Kremlin ally.
Moscow began a military intervention in Syria in September to shore up Assad, who is battling rebels backed by Ankara and Washington.
The incident also cast a shadow over Tuesday's meeting between Obama and French President François Hollande, who is hoping for closer collaboration between U.S. and Russia over fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in response to the Paris terror attacks.
Obama met with with his National Security Council on Tuesday to discuss ways to accelerate the fight against ISIS.
The White House said Obama's advisers told him "there is currently no specific, credible threat to the homeland from ISIS."
I imagine that Obama gave the guy a big high five.
I was sitting here thinking about how much I hate Obama and realizing that Bill Clinton no longer seems quite as bad a president. I guess there are degrees of ‘’awful’’.
What the f is Obama doing. NATO has already asked why Turkey didn’t escort the Russian jet out of the airspace.
A war with Russia would be sufficient cause to invoke special emergency national security continuity of operations executive orders and, thereby, seize control of the government.
Rather I suspect to high five each other.
You’ve got that exactly right!
One wimp joining with another wimp who has just sucker-punched the wrong dude to ask the sucker-punched dude to de-escalate the situation. What idiots. If you wanted it de-escalated, you shouldn’t have escalated it in the first place. Court martial a couple of people quickly and shoot them yourself if you want de-escalation (I assume that Turkey still has the death penalty).
I dunno. Trying to live up to his Nobel Peace prize?
I don't think Putin is that stupid but I think Obama is. I'm baffled as to where this is all going. WW3 maybe???
Worse time in the history to have an incompetent, petulent child acting president.
Bad, bad timing.
Correct.
Jimmah Cahtah at least was not a traitor...
I bet Putin is shaking in his boots! What’s next, will OhBowMa use his pen too!
Not likely.
The Turks most probably had been over flown like Scotland, Alaska, etc.
Poot got his feathers fluffed....
I am so impressed with this Community-organizer-in-Chief. /s
0bama is trying to start WWIII and needs to be removed from office NOW! Even his replacement Slow Joe isn’t this stupid and could keep us out of trouble until Cruze or Trump are in the Oval Office.
FUislam and FUobama. We real Americans are against you.
>Poot got his feathers fluffed....
I think you have mistaken FR with the DUmp. Post there, they will like your islamo ways.
“Two muslims trying to reduce tensions with Russian leader Putin.”
Who’s Putin who?
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