[Parley Baer]

So when Turkish aircraft violate Syrian airspace are they fair game to be shot down?

[silverleaf]

Now they are

[livius]

I guess. Since the Trurks actually shot this pilot down in SYRIAN airspace. Even NATO told them to back off.

But the problem is that the Turks want to provoke something because they have bizarre apocalyptic beliefs about the triumph of Islam through the revival of the Ottoman Empire - and even ISIS wants to be in Constantinople, aka, Istanbul.