Official statement of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Russian Su-24 aircraft shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter on its way to the Hmeymim airbase
The Russian Su-24 aircraft was shot down on its way to the Hmeymim airbase in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic by a Turkish F-16 fighter.
Analysis of the objective monitoring data definitely showed that there had not been any violation of the Turkish air space.
1. The Russian Su24 military jet was shot down by a Turkish F-16 over Syrian territory while returning to Khmeimim airbase, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.
The Ministry’s Twitter says that “analysis of the objective monitoring data” showed the downed SU-24 jet did not violate Turkish air space.
2. Russian Su-24 fighter jet shot down over Syria – Russian MoD (VIDEO)
3. MAP location of the Russian jet crash in Syria
4. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he regards the downing of the SU-24 as “a stab in the back” by “terrorist accomplices,” adding that Turkey gets the flow of oil from Islamic State-controlled territories. [source]
5. Putin: Downing of Russian jet over Syria stab in the back by terrorist accomplices VIDEO
The Russian President is making a statement on the Russian Su-24 warplane recently downed over Syria after meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Moscow.
6. Russian Su-24 jet has crashed on the Turkish-Syrian border, the Russian Defense Ministry said. [source]
7. NATO that was shunned by France after November 13th, Paris attacks are once again in the headlines. France has set a precedent for using the EU as the first response to military attack in the continent, marking a decisive shift away from Nato. However, after the Turkey’s attack on Russia NATO calls ‘extraordinary meeting’ on Tuesday 24. TASS and Yahoo
8. Czech Foreign Minister urges international anti-terrorist strategy agreement [source]
According to Lubomir Zaorale, the situation with Russia’s SU-24 military aircraft is “a serious warning” to participants of the operation against the Islamic State militant
9. TASS condemns attack on journalists in Syria
On Monday, TASS correspondent Alexander Yelistratov, as well as RT correspondents Sargon Khadaya and Roman Kosarev came under fire in Syria and suffered minor injuries
10. Lavrov says Russians should refrain from visiting Turkey [source]
“According to our estimations, the threat is no less than in Egypt,” Lavrov warns
11. Russian lawmaker seeks Turkey flight ban after military plane downed [source]
Nikolay Levichev, a deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma lower house, has asked the head of the Federal Aviation Agency to consider banning flights to Turkey following Tuesday’s crash of a Russian Su-24 military jet.
“I am asking you to consider total and immediate termination of air communications between Russia and Turkey until exhausting measures are taken to get rid of any possible sources of terrorist threat at Turkish airports,” Levichev said.
12. November 24th President Putin had a Meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan [source]
Vladimir Putin had talks with King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, who is in Russia on a working visit.
13. Putin: Russia, Jordan must join forces in fight against terrorism [source]
“Today when such serious struggle against international terrorism is underway, we must pool our efforts, it is clear,” the Russian leader said during his meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan
14. Lavrov Cancels Visit to Turkey After Su-24 Downing Over Syria [source]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has cancelled his visit to Turkey after a Russian Su-24 jet was downed over Syria with an air-to-air missile launched by Turkish F-16 fighter planes.
“The president clearly stated that this could not but affect Russian-Turkish relations. In this context, it was decided to cancel the meeting between Russia’s and Turkey’s ministers of foreign affairs, which was planned for tomorrow [November 25] in Istanbul,” Sergei Lavrov told journalists.
15. Protest taking place at Turkish embassy in Moscow [source]
President Putin called the incident with Russian Su-24 frontline bomber a “stab in the back” of Russia delivered by “terrorism accomplices”
16. Video by FSA brigade said-to-show Russian helicopter destroyed by TOW near Su-24 crash site VIDEO
Published on Nov 24, 2015
Video by FSA brigade said-to-show Russian helicopter destroyed by TOW missile launcher near Su-24 crash site. The chopper is believed to be on rescue mission for pilots of Su24M downed over Syria near border with Turkey earlier today.
17. Not only Ankara backs Daesh but offers also logistical support – Pepe Escobar [source]
Published on Nov 24, 2015
A Russian warplane has gone down near the Turkish-Syrian border after an apparent attack. Turkish and Russian sources have given conflicting reports about the incident, which has the potential to escalate the tension between Russia and NATO member Turkey.
Political analyst Pepe Escobar believes Turkey is clearly linked to ISIS and other extremist organizations in Syria
18. Russian warplane shot down at Syria-Turkey border Live updates
19. Russia Lodges Official Protest With Turkish Attache Over Downed Su-24 [source]
Russia has lodged an official protest with the Turkish military attache over its downed Su-24 jet, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Russia Defense Ministry is considering Turkish actions in Syria [downing a Russian Su-24 jet over Syria] as unfriendly act, the ministry said in a statement.
“We are considering actions of the Turkish air forces as an unfriendly act,” the statement read.
20. Russian Su-24 pilots shot dead while parachuting over Syria – Turkmen militia [source]
21. Turkey Summons Ambassadors From UNSC Member-Countries Over Su-24 Incident [source]
Ambassadors from five United Nations Security Council member-countries were summoned Tuesday at Turkey’s request. [source]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned on Tuesday ambassadors from five United Nations Security Council member-countries over the downing of a Russian combat plane on the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported.
According to the agency, the ambassadors from Russia, UK, the United State, China and France will be given information on circumstances surrounding the shooting down of a Su-24 attack aircraft, which allegedly violated the Turkish airspace during a mission against Islamic State militants in Syria
22. Defence Attache at the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Moscow was urgently summoned to the Russian Ministry of Defence where he was presented an official protest concerning the actions of the Turkish Air Force [source]
Defence Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Moscow was urgently summoned to the Russian Ministry of Defence where he was presented an official protest concerning the actions of the Turkish Air Force containing following statements:
“Today at 9:30 the Russian aircraft, which performed combat counterterrorist missions was shot down by an aircraft of the Turkish Air Force.
The Russian aircraft did not cross the Turkish border and acted only against objects on the territory of Syria.
Combat actions of the Russian aviation were conducted against illegal terrorist formations, which consist of a large number of militants from the Russian North Caucasus.
Efforts of the Russian Defence Ministry specialists to organize cooperation with the Turkish party by emergency communication link were not successful.
The Defence Ministry considers actions of the Turkish Air Force as an unfriendly act.
At present, the Russian Defence Ministry is designing a complex of measures directed to respond such incidents.
23. Combat missions against terrorists in Syria will be continued.”
The Russian Defense Ministry confirms that they have not received any response from the Turkey’s government. Turkey refuses to communicate with the Russian officials. [source]
24. ‘Why down Russian jet? Because fighting ISIS is not really on Turkey’s agenda’ [source]
25. FSA video claims Russian-made helicopter hit with US-made TOW missile near Su-24 crash site [source]
The Western Media on the Turkey’s attack on Russia
The EU’s Tusk and NATO are calling for “calm” “prudence and common sense”
Putin calls Turkey ‘accomplices of terrorists’ after Russian jet shot down – live updates
NATO calls ‘extraordinary meeting’ after Turkey downs Russian jet. NATO accusing Russia in violation of Turkey’s airspace [source]
Two pilots from downed Russian jet believed alive, authorities working to secure their release from Syrian opposition rebels: Turkish official [source]
‘Shooting down of jet could be game changer for Russia and Turkey’ [source]
Germany’s Steinmeier urges Russia and Turkey to show restraint [source]
Until now some 1500 Turkmenes have fled from Syria to Turkey due to the Syrian-Russian offensive. That may hardly count when you compare it to the total number of Syrian refugees, but in Turkey it is a big issue. And it is not hard to see that that number could increase drastically: there are many Turkmenes living in the remaining rebel-held part of Latakia province.
It looks like someone in Turkey believed something should be done. However, it is doubtful whether it will help Syria’s Turkmenes.
On a side note:
Turkey has the habit of regularly violating Greek air space.
Wim,
Turkey illegally occupies 40% of the Republic of Cyprus, since 1979. No nation recognizes this state of affairs as legitimate.
Maybe the Greeks will get smart and leave the EU and NATO or continue to be slaves. Greece future is working with Russia as both are Orthodox Christians.
8. You have typo here: the Czech Foreign Minister’s name is “Lubomír Zaorálek”.
By the way, Adolf Hitler was a decent man in comparison with R. T. Erdoğan. Hitler did it for his nation; Erdoğan does it for his personal conceitedness and power of his mafia party.
But Russia reaps what it has sown: being too soft on Erdoğan.
Actually, Putin should have responded to Obama’s latest insane jab (that Russia should focus on fighting the Islamic State rather than supporting President Bashar Hafez al-Assad): United States of Aggression should focus on fighting the Islamic State rather than supporting dictator Erdoğan.
I find the notion that Hitler was a decent man ludicrous and even downright apologetically revisionist..
What Nation of “his” are you referring to? Austria? Hungary? He certainly was not German…more Jewish than German in fact. But that said, you are right about Erdogan, the little Sultan with a Caliphate-creating Napoleon complex.
On the rest of this debacle, I will reserve my comment for later, its clear that this has all the makings of a true human tragedy. Or in economic terms: Long wheelchairs, coffins and Sorrow.
Mac
Mac, judging by Erdogan’s actions, which are those of a deranged psychopath, the NATO type par excellence, we may be on the final path to thermo-nuclear war.
mac chiavelli
Grab that straw man an run with it…
Did you fail to read my comment, or did you fail to comprehend it?
Just like back in 1877 when Russia was ready to regain Constantinople, but the powers that be of that day(Britain, France, Austria and Prussia) said hold on there Ivan you do that and\ we will attack you. Russia was able to free Bulgaria but that is as far as they went. Bulgaria today is like Turkey a stab in the back nation.
The US has taken out entire nations for less insult than this. I would like to see Putin take out Turkey but he has way too much self control – and compassion for innocent civilians – to do such a thing. He appears to be the only leader on the entire world stage right now who is telling the truth and trying to do the right thing.
Yes, this is not just a “stab from the back” or an “unfriendly act”.
It is a act of war.
Shooting down the Iranian Airbus was an act of war. But so what? Ask any Iranian. Sure, they were mad as hell when it happened and they said it out loud, but they will tell you that revenge is a dish best served up cold.
Turkey takes the blame. But who really did it? >> https://goo.gl/qazI3V
FWIW, here’s Fadel 24th he finally showed up after being away at a critical time:
http://syrianperspective.com/2015/11/aleppo-khan-toomaan-liberated-hundreds-of-nato-terrorists-killed-by-legitimate-allied-forces-as-syrian-army-continues-its-advance.html
ALEPPO: The situation has turned around completely in the north. It has become so dire for the terrorist rodents that Turkey has now begun opening up its guns at Russian warplanes flying in Syrian airspace. Moreover, that Turk-rat child molester, Khaalid Al-Khojaa, the so-called leader of the non-existent NACOSROF, based in Istanbul, has called on Nusra/Alqaeda to sever its ties to Al-Qaeda and join the “revolutionaries”. What a pathetic joke. Watch the developments carefully with talk now about a severing of relations between Turkey and Russia.
Turkey did it on purpose with the agreement of USA in order to intimidate Russia.
Turkish explanations are ridiculous as they violate the sovereignty and airspace of neighbouring countries. The NATO puppet regimes in Greece are doing nothing as they are subservient to their USA – EU masters.
Turkey repeatedly violates the Greek air space but also the Greek waters. Turkish ships and aircrafts have moved inside Greek territory.
Turkey considers the lawful
expansion of greek nautical miles as casus belli.
A few years ago, a greek pilot lost his life after a collision with a Turkish airplane in Greek airspace. During the imia incident , a greek helicopter was shot down by turkey but Greece and USA covered up the attack.
Turkey also floods Greek islands with islamists, supposedly “Syrian refugees”. Most of them are afghans and non Syrians. They come to Turkey with tourist visas. The so called refugee crisis is a hoax. It is a carefully organized mass invasion perpetrated by Western secret services.
Last but not least, north Cyprus is still illegally occupied by turkey. The “west” does not impose any sanctions on Turkey. On the other hand, they support Turkey membership into EU !
“Turkey did it on purpose with the agreement of USA in order to intimidate Russia.”
The USA did it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to intimidate Russia too. See how well that turned out? Well, it made a lot of cold-war money for the defense contractors.
Hitler tried to intimidate Russia during WW-II (Leningrad, Stalingrad), and it did not turn out well.
Napoleon tried to intimidate Russia, and id did not turn out well for him.
It seems to me that intimidating Russia makes about as much sense as conquering Afghanistan. Look at the history of this kind of foolishness.
Turkey is a loose cannon and should be expelled from NATO.
NATO needs Turkey, the biggest component outside the US.
It would disappear without Turkey.
And Turkey’s goals are consistent with the Hegemon’s goals. Perfect unison.
Today was perfect timing to scare Hollande, to refocus on US domination of any coalition, to help Turkey control the northern border and to punish and embarrass Putin and to strengthen the fifth an sixth columnists inside Russia.
It’s a big day for ISIS, Turkey, the Hegemon, NATO and Chaos. And it only cost one air-to-air missile.
Meanwhile, Obama got one hour of TV FaceTime and ISIS attacked an Egyptian hotel, killing 7, and launched a Tunisian attack also.
But the battlefield was changed.
Putin will plan to take away the northern border from Turkey and will assist the Kurds against Turkey. He has a ground force to fight Turkey and its allies—the Kurds. He’ll give them air support or missiles or TOWs or whatever is useful to their efforts against Turkey.
It’s a proxy war now, Turkey using Turkmen in Syria and Russia will use Kurds.
S 400s may soon be on the scene. Russia must have that airspace to operate and it has to be free of any threat.
I am even not sure that the deliberate killing by turkomen of the parashuting rus pilots-if proven but I believe-would be enough to convince the west that indeed there are no “moderate terrorists” which USA seems so insistent to protect with NATO.
JJ on November 24, 2015 · at 8:39 pm UTC
“I am even not sure that the deliberate killing by turkomen of the parashuting rus pilots-if proven”
Perhaps this proof ?
Jack on November 24, 2015 · at 2:21 pm UTC
Just posted on Fortruss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GPmmtrMJyHs
that was shooting a Syrian pilot dropping supplies over the Airbase after IS took over the surrounding area from the FSA 2 years ago.. I think the pilot died.. The SAA only last week or so cleared the area of IS terrorists.. The Russian pilot was executed after he was captured.. The Turkish PM said the pilot was alive and then we saw bullet holes in him.
Brilliant observation, sir!
This immediately came to my mind.
Actually, these are Russia’s options (in order of increasing likelihood but decreasing efficiency):
1. accompanying the slow ground attack aircraft with air superiority fighters; it is one thing to dastardly attack a defenceless aircraft, it is quite another to try it against top air superiority fighters; unfortunately, even if a little provocation were needed in revenge, the Turkish bastards would most likely be unwilling to take the bait, instead preferring to stay out of the heat and complain about the violation of international law in yet another spectacular show of hypocrisy; thus, such opportunities would be quite rare; however, if they did somehow manage to take Turkey by surprise and killed a Turkish aircraft in self defence—no matter where—it would send possibly the strongest signal to the Turkish mafiosi about the practical limits to their warmongering;
2. dropping a thermobaric bomb on the Turkmen scumbags; which should pretty much obliterate them all, sending a clear and chilling signal to the goons in Ankara that this is what their terrorist “assets” will be turned into if the Turkish goons ever dare behave so aggressively in their support;
3. arming the Kurds (possibly also joining their forces with Israel in this effort) in order to serve an appropriate feedback to the Turkish regime, to turn the cuntry into a battleground and possibly rip it apart, thus mending what was bollixed in the aftermath of the First World War; and now the deadly disease of Turkish imperialism runs rampant again; after all, Turkey has been a threat to our civilization for more than a millennium, at least since the Battle of Manzikert.
(I am sorry about the follow-up…)
3. Regarding arming the Kurds, Russia should focus on Iraqi Kurdistan, so that Erdoğan will never ever dare attack Iraq in another unpunished blatant act of aggression. Turkey needs to be contained by brute force!
Besides, it is a result of Russia’s clumsy diplomacy and inept propaganda that Turkey has not been made a pariah of the international community, especially during this refugee crisis.
It ought to be made clear to the EU lackeys of Fashington that it is either the very existence of the EU, or dragging by the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization…
After the Paris attacks, I sneered in disgust, because 130 people are too few for Hollande od any other lackey of Fashington change the course. I mean, 130 people is nothing that a few thousand policemen soldiers in the street could not “cover up”.
Mind you that Fashington is desperate what his lackeys attempt to get out of control. Obama has already sent a strong signal to Hollande that Fashington will not allow Paris to defend itself on its own or make alliances freely.
And now this blatant Turkish provocation comes merely 2 days before Hollande’s visit to the Kremlin.
Turkey is like the biggest army in NATO Europe. Turkey would be key in any war against Russia.
NATO appreciates and duly encourages violent, reactionary scum such as Erdogan. To expel Turkey from NATO would be total insanity.
NATO is a loose cannon, a criminal organization, a daily threat to peace and there will be no
peace and quiet until NATO is disbanded or defeated.
Nato is a loose cannon, Isis is a loose cannon, Turkey is a loose cannon. Lot of loose cannons out there. Lots of distractions, but Putin is not easily distracted from his objectives, and if anything, he will ramp up his schedule. All these provocations are counterproductive.
Many people here and elsewhere are claiming that the turkish shooting down of the russian aircraft is “An Act of War”
No it is not.
Replying militarily when someone violates your airspace is not necessarily an act of war.
BUT: Repeatedly violating the Airspace of a potential enemy is always a potential act of war.
Given that the violation appears to have occurred and given that such violations appear to have occurred on a regular enough basis, it’s up to the Turks how they choose to respond.
YOU might think that they should have only responded diplomatically, and I might even agree with you, but that is not your or my call to make.
The Turks are under no obligation to respond diplomatically when a foreign power repeatedly violates their airspace. Nor are they obliged to consider your or my wishes when they do choose to respond.
The Russkies knew what they were doing when they did it – they are not children. They knew the range of possible outcomes. I’m sure they have gamed their response – if not then they are much much more foolish than I ever considered possible.
Similarly the Turks knew what they were doing when they did it – they too are not children. They too knew the range of possible outcomes. They too are sure to have gamed their response.
It takes two to tango after all.
Clearly the Turks thought about this before they went and did it. And they obviously figured whatever price to pay will be worth it.
BUT: Whether anyone here likes it or not, by all International laws they had every right to do what they did.
This “it only entered Turk airspace for a very short time” excuse that people are and will be proffering, is nonsense. It did enter, and that’s all that matters from the Turk p.o.v.
Diplomatically and Politically it is probably a v. v. bad move, but we’ll have to wait and see what Putin’s response will be. This is a v delicate situation, but right now, legally, Turkey is actually on solid ground [legally].
BTW: Until today the Turks have not chosen to respond militarily to these provocations. Today they chose to. Such a response was always a very strong possibility, given that Russia and Turkey have been playing footsie over this from day one.
The Russkies decided to push the point and now Turkey have pushed back.
Mexican Standoff
So Syria can shoot down all those NATO planes flying in its skies?
After all, it’s international law, right?
Interesting view from the legal side, but not sure Turkey has a legal case because the plane was actually shot down in Syrian airspace not Turkey’s. The Turks themselves violated international law to do this.
Legal arguments aside, Russia was collaborating with Turkey in this campaign, and was considered a friendly nation by Russia, hence Putin’s “stab in the back” comment.
yes
absolutely
Legally the syrians can shoot down any foreign military aircraft operating in its airspace without permission
Might not be wise to do so, but legally it would pass muster
Yes
Absolutely
Legally the Syrians can and should shoot down any and all foreign Military aircraft operating in their airspace without the express permission of the Syrian govt.
Nice try, RTE. Syrians (read: rebels) have a right to “shoot down any and all foreign Military aircraft operating in their airspace without the express permission of the Syrian govt.”
Good call. RTE is a slippery one; just like his Zionist-controlled Irish broadcaster namesake :D
“Mexican stand-off” I think not. Turkish planes violating Syrian territory are toast from now on most likely . Turkey shoot more like.
Turkish planes violating Syrian territory are toast from now on most likely
good
so they should be
You assume that the plane violated Turkish airspace. Russia denies that. You assume that there have been repeated violations of Turkish airspace by Russia.. Russia denies this.
So the known facts: The plane crashed in Syria and its pilots landed in Syria.
Good retorts all to RTE. Previous alleged air space violations of Turkish territory were based on their self announced buffer zone and disregard by Russia as legally Syrian airspace, for the most part. Russia has already announced their data which they keep careful track of, regarding the topographical location of their airplane. Let’s all follow up on that. But regardless, Turkey is only annoyed with Russian actions because Turkey is ISIS, the establishment of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood caliphate is Erdogan’s pipe dream along with the Wahabbi Saudi’s and the gas pipeline dreaming Qatarri’s. It is past time to recognize Turkey and their allies as Terrorist supporting criminals and sanction the hell out of all of them. The problem with doing this is that their main sponsor is NATO and the U.S. is the grand maestro. and the U.S. don’t heed no stink’n International law; as Karl Rove said to the effect : ” we make the laws, we make the history, others just write down what we do !” Which has always been the case, the hegemon/victors write the history books and that is the perceived reality. Truth ! You Can’t Handle the Truth !
Ah a favorable reference to Hitler to start the thread…looks like the professional trolls are out in force today, as are the crazy Turks who think pissing off the country that supplies almost half their natural gas, billions of tourist and agribusiness euros per year is a marvelous idea.
The problem with your analysis, RTE, is the Russia didn’t violate Turkey’s airspace. In 2012, Turkey unilaterally decided to illegally move its border 5 miles south INTO Syria. It was that line Russian planes cross, not Turkey’s actual, lawful, internationally-recognized border. So your whole argument is a non-sequitur.
So Turkey’s unilateral move of its borders in 2012 could be likened to a kind of Islamic ‘Schengen rape’ of Syria?
You seem to know exactly, without any room for doubt, what track over the ground the SU-24 took.
There is a ‘Turkey declared’ 10 km border safe zone that is actually in Syria. How do your ‘solid legal grounds’ stand on that one if that was the area in question?
I am intrigued by your inference that if a fighter jet over country A does stray into country B’s airspace then country B is ‘legally justified’ in then firing a missile into country A in order to down the offending fighter jet that has escaped country B.
Sounds a little pugnacious and a definite recipe for war.
A very balanced analysis among all the hysteria. Its hard to believe no matter how crazy Erdogan and Turks might be, they arent crazy enough to shoot a Russian plane unless it actually crossed into their airspace. I think Putin’s ‘we weren’t actually threatening Turkey’ sort of implies that they might have crossed into Turkey but there was no harm intended to the Turks directly. But having their plane shot down means Russians will surely respond in some way, because they can being much more powerful than Turkey.
whoever
No matter how many of you repeat the zio-lies, they still remain lies.
i don’t agree with you. i will write distilled version of answer. you are totally wrong. Turkey has no right to shot down ANY plane in combat mission in neighbouring country. if they don’t want to side with one side in conflict. Turkey sided with ISIS/rebels. just as Mr. Putin said. RuAF did not pose any threat to Turkey and if they were stranded in Turkish airspace for tens seconds, what is the big deal?
it happens all the time everywhere in world. even Turkish forces are violating Greece airspace constantly. so? Turkey is showing that they are enemy of RF. Russia already cut military cooperation with Turkey.
https://www.rt.com/news/323329-russia-suspend-military-turkey/
probably more to come.
my previous replay was for RTE,
sorry for mistake
You are acting on the unproven assumption that Turkeys’ claims that the aircraft crossed the border into their air space are true and proven to be so.
this is not the case. In fact even the US authorities have stated there is NO evidence for any claim that Russia entered Turkeys airspace, moreover,r even if it had, it could not have been there 5 seconds, not enough to claim anything on.
Turkey is part of NATO which was signatory to a non-violence of action in airspace, in order to ensure Russian safety. Thats why the bomber was flying without fighter protection: they didn’t believe they needed it.
Turkey is NOT in anyway in it’s rights, and this does, unless proven to be accidental which is highly unlikely, constitute an act of war by Turkey against Russia.
And it will pay, one way or another, one day or another.
According to the Guardian Wikileaks published a Turkish letter to UN claiming that Russia violated Turkish air space for 17 seconds and were warned 10 times..
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/24/russian-jet-downed-by-turkish-planes-near-syrian-border-live-updates
Even if the Russian warplane crossed into the Turkish airspace, how is it even possible for Turkey to warn the Russian jet 10 times and fire (and heat the target) within 17 seconds? The math just doesn’t work here.
Reply to all
here is a radar map the Turks released showing that the Russian Jet violated Turkish Airspace.
and the Russians HAVE several times violated Turkish Airspace. From Day one
This is common knowledge acknowledged by all, incl the russians
Reply to all
http://www.moonofalabama.org/images4/flightpath-s.jpg
That is a Turkish Radar Map released by the Turks immediately after the shoot down
It shows that the Russians did violate Turkish Airspace.
Russian violations of Turkish Airspace has happened sat least once before in the past few weeks.
This is common knowledge, and acknowledged by the Russians. so you can claim otherwise a million times and as loul=dly as you want, but you’ll still be wrong
rte 7:47
Just as I thought, zionist disinfo spread through MoA and sent to infect this site.
Fortunately, the lie of the Su-24 being inside turkey has already been debunked by evidence posted by several commenters below. It looks like the Turk f-16 was actually inside Syria when it committed this war crime.
Again, as has been shown repeatedly over the years, the zionazis falsely accuse their victims of their own crimes.
Disgusting.
Nice spin RTE. The BBC would be proud of you. For those that would like to see the rest of the article from which this map was taken, and perhaps a little more nuance, then read “The Two Versions Of The Latakia Plane Incident
http://www.moonofalabama.org/
RTE you have not answered my earlier questions on ‘legality’ particularly since Turkey is on very shaky grounds regarding incursions into Greek airspace -let’s not even get into discussing Cyprus.
Does a Turkish missile fired into sovereign Syrian airspace not violate Syria airspace in your view?
I wil take it that unless I hear otherwise that you claim that a sovereign Syria can legally shoot down any foreign military aircraft in Syrian airspace -including Turkish, US, NATO or any hostile GCC ones?
This is an excellent video with the full course of the SU24 and the Turkish F16. This is sat/radar image, and it actually gives all RuAF planes and helos in the NW Syria area.
Pretty clear Turkey shot the Su24 way into the Syria border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cs8jdJKSGo&list=TLscwRaqL9KUwyNDExMjAxNQ
We’ve all seen this map and all it shows, if it is correct, is that the Su-24 momentarily crossed Turkish airspace and immediately left. This does not give Turkey the legal right to shoot it down. To say that it does is a sort of video game mentality that has no basis in reality.
I was trying to warn the commenters of the propaganda being promoted by RTE. My comment was deleted unfortunately as it was probably being considered as a personal attack or something. Far from it. I just noticed that (s)he posts it word-to-word on every website. MoA was one of them and here, on the Saker, on another thread. Fortunately, the commenters there were diligent and refuted his(her) propaganda pretty quick.
My comment was also blocked and it was not a personal attack. This is not looking good.
Vot tak, my comment was actually deleted, not blocked. I saw it posted and then disappeared shortly after. That’s why I thought it was violating some policies. Although I couldn’t for the life of me see anything provocative or offensive in my comment.
In extremist Jewish groups online, they are boasting that their people now have key moderation positions at most non-zionist alternative forums like this one, Zerohedge, DavidIcke, etc. Indeed Zerohedge has, in the last few weeks, seen dozens of anti-zionist posters banned while not one racist zionist troll was removed. The very problem with ‘moderation’ is that the most evil people can offer their services with absolutely no way the site owner can know their true intentions.
A few years back, it was common for zionist trolls to bait ‘problematic’ regular posters to a forum, allowing the moderator to ban the target, and the trolling account as well. However, today they don’t even have to worry about creating new trolling accounts, since they seemingly can now remove only ‘one side’ of a ‘heated argument’. The Jewish extremists that target Zerohedge have been almost 100% concerned with its ‘pro-Russian’ bias- and that speaks volumes.
The DavdIcke forums lost all of their intelligent regular posters as a result of this tactic, and the moderators their are now mostly zionists that live in Australia and NZ.
TheMess (military forum) recently expelled ALL its Russian contributors, in an act of moderator abuse that didn’t even try to hide its pro-zionist agenda.
The extremist Jews got their act together after the second most recent Jewish-Israeli Holocaust in Gaza. At that time, a famous strip of photos comparing the acts of Israel Jews in Gaza with Nazis in WW2 was released to great effect. Jewish extremists swore that never again would they allow true images of their war crimes to widely appear across the net- and that required placing their people in moderator and editorial positions on all significant sites.
It is all too easy for an embedded Jewish extremist to come up with an excuse for banning a post that hurts their cause, without ever exposing their true agenda. And too many websites have financial concerns that make the owners less than vigilant when it comes down to moderator abuse.
This has been happening for many years now, as well as planting posters and people who write to complain about someone — and it’s not just zionists but US DoD, etc. It’s part of the information war, with big money and armies of operatives behind it.
Thanks, anonanon, for that info. That sort of zionazi infiltrate and subvert strategy is one of their standards. I suspect it was zio-infiltration like that involved in the sabotage of Saker’s site, especially the French section, during the websayanim S.W.A.R.M. attack on the site after the zionazi’s Charlie Hebdo false flag.
I note that Putin did not say that the evidence that Russia did not go into Turkey was monitoring information, but objective monitoring information — objective is a key word, which I take to mean either radar or satellite data or some other sort of instrumentation which was completely rock solid.
RTE = Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
Good guess but I liked the chance to have a dig at the Zionist-controlled Irish broadcaster anyway :D
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”
Lunatic – Tayyip Erdogan.
There is a universal saying – ‘Never EVER to trust a Turk’
In fact the russian/syrian hmeim airbase radar registered a turkish violation of the syrian airspace and an attack on a russian empty fighterjet on the way to home in syrian airspace, also turkey violated syrian airspace many times to bomb syrian kurds without any consent of syrian government, and turkey knows very well that the russian presence is not pointed to them but to terrorists, turkey crossed all lines, mad idiots, if i were putin i would call upon all russian persons to immeditly leave turkey, close the embassy, stop all travel and trade, close the borders, establish a real no fly zone above the syrian/turkish border, demand a very deep humiliating apology, full payment of the damage, punishment of the turkish military involved, money for the family of the pilots, and if not met declare war and destroy turkish airforce/defense completely, with the warning of nukes coming to make the bosporus as wide as the widest ocean, and the same for the nato accomplishes that might think to help turkish terrornation.
Yes. No time for chess, this is action.
If they bite you and you do nothing, they come back and eat you. I hope Putin is aware of this being proven in the history.
Just ask: what would Izrael do?
What did they do to the Turkish ship with humanitarian load heading for Gaza?!
Go Russia, punish the dictator. He is used to supress own student demonstrations, black-mailing the lazy silly EU…
Not a one NATO country would back stupid Turkish president in conflict with Russia (USA already confirmed this).
RTE wrote the same stuff over at moonofalabama.org
but he has no data other than what the turks sed.
russians have realtime data from their sats, so they know for sure.
“Replying militarily when someone violates your airspace is not necessarily an act of war.”
It will come down to which set of evidence do you trust — Russian or Western. I’ve yet to hear of any Western evidence that the downed Russian plane violated Turkish airspace. Not that that is any excuse to down the plane, as you well know.
Meanwhile, the incident is the final nail in the coffin for the “moderate rebel” nonsense.
RTE has copied and pasted this particular drivel into now at least three threads. He may have been banned at Moon of Alabama, once talk of banning him surfaced he disappeared.
Be skeptical of RTE posts.
“BTW: Until today the Turks have not chosen to respond militarily to these provocations. Today they chose to. Such a response was always a very strong possibility, given that Russia and Turkey have been playing footsie over this from day one.
The Russkies decided to push the point and now Turkey have pushed back.”
Methinks tis the Turks that are the provocateurs, e.g. the non-trivial matter of being the state backer of ISIS.
A whiff of “Mexican” Hasbara. “The Russkis did it, dunnit?”
Turkey acted in support of the Turkmen “rebels” who fight against the legitimate government of Syria. It is clearly demonstrated by the “revenge” murder of the pilots by the barbarians (BTW it appears that they were…Afghans).
1. But Turkey most likely committed it over Syria.
2. From the legal point of view it would hardly pass the muster if the Russian airplane did not behave aggressively. For example, its entrance into Turkish airspace could have been forced by some external threat—such as the Turkmen rebels, whom Turkey supports.
3. Actually, what you argue would be true if Turkey were innocent, but Turkey itself is guilty of aggression against Syria (by supporting, arming and sending armed fighters to Syria to fight the Syrian government). Thus, Turkey itself is committing an act of aggression in Syria (much like Russia in Ukraine—but the West had started in Syria even sooner).
Thus, if Russia had a formal defence alliance with Syria, Russian planes could then legally shoot down Turkish planes even in the Turkish airspace, acting in self-defence as per Article 51 of the Charter of the U.N. Of course, the point of contention would be whether the Turkish involvement was “substantial”.
I believe that it was *substantial*—as it was a *substantial contribution*, hence a *substantial involvement*—judging by the results—as it apparently enabled the Jabhat an-Nusra to make such a breakthrough in the Idlib province and beyond which, based on the circumstantial evidence, would not have been possible without Turkish involvement (even if it were on the secret service level).
Also, regarding the Turkmen who fight the Syrian government and who committed the war crime of attacking the parachutists (indeed, the Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 is part of customary international law, thus is legally binding even for these scumbags), they have even been trained by the Turkish Special Forces Command, so Turkey is actually quite deeply involved in this.
4. However, you are gravely mistaken in your over-simplistic interpretation of the Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Turkey cited the article, but since it is a member of the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization, its claims must not be taken at face value, but must be examined. So, let us do it:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an ARMED ATTACK occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.” [Article 51 of the Charter of the U.N.—EMPHASIS MINE]
“An attack by the armed forces of a State on the land, sea or air forces, or marine and air fleets of another State” is an act of aggression.
“The First use of armed force by a State in contravention of the Charter shall constitute prima facie evidence of an act of aggression (although the Security Council may, in conformity with the Charter, conclude that a determination that an act of aggression has been committed would not be justified in the light of other relevant circumstances, including the fact that the acts concerned or their consequences are not of sufficient gravity).” [both quotes are from UN General Assembly Resolution 3314]
Thus, Turkey is actually most likely the aggressor here.
Not to mention the fact that Turkey has been acting in defiance of the U.N.S.C. Resolution 2170 (and in violation of the Charter of the U.N., as mentioned above), which further adds to the gravity of the violation of the international law by Turkey.
What I have outlined here are the guidelines that the International Court of Justice would most likely follow (if they were not staffed by Fashington lackeys).
Why would Turkey shoot down a plane of a country fighting ISIS when Turkey is also fighting ISIS, along with NATO?
Are they both not on the same side?
Go troll somewhere else until you get an education.
I don’t agree at all. A country doesn’t have the legal right to shoot down any foreign airplane just because the airplane strays over its airspace. An extreme act like a shoot down has got to be based on some sort of reasonable belief that the foreign airplane is attacking or is somehow such a threat that self defense requires that it be destroyed.
The Russians are no stranger to the Tango, and while it is true that it is not an act of war to shoot a plane down in your own airspace- it is an act of war to shoot a plane down in another countries airspace. Don’t let the facts interrupt your bloviating, and don’t pretend that you know the fact because there are some here that might just have to raise the Bullshit flag on you.
Just because you CAN shoot at a plane that violates your airspace doesn’t mean that you SHOULD. It might even be a really bad idea. But Turkey has a history of playing with fire.
Is that directly from the state department handout or did you spend the entire night typing that garbage up?
I am asking because you already posted this disinformation which was already debunked. So you are not here to discuss anything but to just argue with posters so as to disrupt communications.
RTE (Recip Tayyip Erdogan…clever, huh?) Was spamming up the threads over at Moon of Alabama until Bernhard & the other posters got wise to his/her/it being a pro-Turk troll. All of its arguments are that, of course, what the Turks did was legally justified & correct, & not an act of war. Bernhard banned him, & cleaned up the thread by deleting his mendacious trash.
I would counsel the moderator here to be ready to pull the trigger on this one, whether a sock puppet for MTI or the US State Department. It means no good, only to sow falsehoods & half truths to divert the discussion. Other readers, the time-honored advice applies; don’t feed the troll. It keeps moving the goal posts no matter the cogency of your critical responses.
May God guide Russia in its path. Confusion & failure to the Islamist scum. May they die only to find that they will be greeted by not 72 virgins, but 72 demons, their proper companions throughout eternity, their just desserts for their evil ways.
We have to remember when we are talking about air space and who violated who, that Turkey arbitrarily “extended” its boarder into Syria by 5 kms/5 miles (can’t recall which) some time ago. So when they talk about having their territory invaded you & I know it’s shit but it makes for a good sound byte in the west & is just another example of the ubiquitous “Russian Aggression” (Trade marked)
The average Joe in TV & McDonalds land doesn’t realise it’s a bullshit boarder and any evidence presented by the RF is ignored as lies because the media has already pronounced it as such . . . just in case you were too stupid to work it out for ones self.
Thanks for getting this out so quickly Scott.
Regarding point 7, I am puzzled about how France fits into all this. They are fighting with the Russians, while Turkey is fighting against the Russians.
Is there a split in NATO?
This was a stab in the back by nato. And I would say it is part of a wider strategy to seize the initiative in Syria from Russia. The west obtained a UNSC resolution last week that allows all capable states to do whatever is necessary to combat terrorist groups in Syria. I don’t know why Russia allowed this to pass. But it would have been very hard, politically, to veto it.
But now the die is cast. If the west can brow beat Russia into becoming just another member of its 100 nation anti-terror coalition in Syria, then the real work of removing Assad, ala Gaddafi, under cover of a UNSC resolution can begin.
French cooperation with Russia is no more than the co-opting of Russia into the American coalition, of which France is already a member. France is the honey that lures the bear towards the trap and Turkey is the stick that beats it there.
Once Russia is cooperating with coalition, it will begin coordination with it. Once there is coordination, direction will begin. Once direction is in place next will be subordination. And after that subservience. Then the west will declare that the only way to fulfill UNSC resolution 2249 and defeat terrorism in Syria is to remove Assad military. Russia will then be in no position to refuse.
The whole French affair stinks. It’s highly suspicious how the moment the Charle de Gaulle warship got into the safety zone, the Turks shot down the Russian warplane within seconds of its alleged crossing into the Turkish airspace. Smells like the French providing coordinates…
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It says to legally do all that is necessary….that would include getting Syria’s permission to enter it’s airspace.
RR
Not necessarily. The resolution does not say that Syria’s govt must be asked for anything. Legality also stems from the UNSC itself. So it would be legal to attack any country if the UNSC authorizes it, regardless of what that country’s government thinks. So this resolution can itself authorize removal of Syria’s government if it is found (by the west of course) that Syria’s government is supporting terrorism.
So a suitable false flag blamed on Assad, or Assad supported terrorists, and an ensuing demonization campaign would be all that would be needed. The problem is Russia, she must be broken first.
“Is there a split in NATO?”
I do hope so; I hope it falls apart/decays completely as the world will be a far safer place without the USA’s wardog NATO.
Now that Russian has their air defense ready, http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151124/1030691269/russia-maritime-air-defense-syria.html
They should fly close to the Turkish border again in next round of bombing and see if any Turkish pilot there to do the same again. If I were the Turkish pilot, I would call in sick…
Just from Russian TV.
1) plane was shot deliberately, no accident;
2) no attempt of communication or establishing line of contact was made;
3) there exists a direct communication line between Russian and Turkish military,
4) Turkish plane was in Syria’s airspace when it attacked the Russian plane – radar data was shown on TV confirming this,
5) Russian pilot was shot when in air – confirmed by general;
6) rescue helicopter was shot down, one killed, it was further destroyed by rebels with newly delivered American weapon when the helicopter made an emergency landing in neutral territory – video was shown.
I believe from the tone of the General giving this briefing, all hell is about to break loose.
For Erdogan, all hell SHOULD break loose.
Russia has deployed the missile cruiser Moskva off the Syrian coast with orders to “Destroy and target that poses a threat”
Scary times ahead
To say “Turks” means to say double-crossing people, it is history. But the plane was shot under US orders: recently Turkey seems to have done a 360 rotation, annulling a previously agreed project with China, under the pretense of doing it domestically, and now the plane. Is Nato willing to start a war with Russia, yes they are since the Ukraine invasion, they are looking for a bigger escalation that Russia may not be able to contain. I hope president Putin keeps a cold head, and Syria announces they are going to shoot down any unwanted plane flying on their sky…it is international law for Syria too, isn’t it? And please, president Putin, do not trust France too much either!
http://greencrowasthecrowflies.blogspot.ca/2015/11/update-american-jets-were-flying-out-of.html
All signs and red flags point to Turkey being used as a patsy in a false flag by USrael against Russia.
gc
Who was actually flying the Turkish jet? A Turkish national?
Who gave the order or did the pilot act independently?
And last – everyone boycott Turkish goods, especially Russians.
via genie ‘sarollah’ @phykick
Turkish F-16 violated Syrian air-space when downing Russian Su-24″ Russian general staff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlJFoIBKQw&feature=youtu.be
STRATFOR chart shows Turkey plane right up to the Syria border then cuts it off. the Turkey plane went into Syria
https://twitter.com/ScottsHumor/status/669237987151056896
I am getting hot under the collar as I try to peer through this fog of war.
Diplomats scurry, war-rooms are abuzz, weapons merchants can hardly restrain their glee, bankers check their bunkers and Ziocons give each other high-fives.
In the meantime mothers weep and are wept over. I can only imagine the heart of a saker grieving over a mother when he learns of his comrades in arms gone down too.
And me, what do I do? Jump on the flag-waving, support our troops train before it leaves the planet earth space station?
Hell? No! I tell myself to calm down, get a grip, stick to my guns.
There is a cause of war and five agents of the main one. I train my sights on these rather than get caught in the headlights of white flashing guns, rockets and bombs with the really bright ones ready and waiting.
I can make a difference by doing what makes a difference. It’s clear by now that what we’re doing isn’t doing it. Mad Marx on the previous thread gives hope for a new balance of power but is that going to be any different in the long game? Power is unstable.
Love is the center that holds even if the wide world folds.
There are five causes that drive war under the iron fisted velvet glove of patriarchy. Few will care, particularly in the fever of war but they need to be stated anyway, even if in bumper sticker fashion:
1) Womam-hating (spelling intentional).
2) Meat-eating.
3) Pet-keeping.
4) Marriage-mongering.
5) Interest-taking.
It’s true so don’t expect it to make sense in a patriarchal brainwashed liar’s den.
It’s time for me to cut to the chase. I may fail to make the grade or spin out on the turn but I need to face my enemy and stop playing footsie with his fetishes. The vehicle with the five bumper stickers is The Love Government and here’s a quote from the same:
“Make no bones about it. Patriarchy is the terrorist master, the 9/11 mastermind and genocidal holocauster. Look no further for the cause of evil.” -thelovegovernment.com, step 49.
Pet keeping? I’ve got three beautiful dogs worth more than any slave-holding yanqui. Whatchoo talking ’bout?
Three!!! i only have one, a stray, who i’ve called Tiger; only a puppy still, chews everything, and is quite ferocious, but as tigers go, very cuddly, but one must remember ones name always, so.. back to Turkey and Syria; scary times? the threat of war has been so long in the air it does not scare me, i only hope i go together with beloved tiger when the time comes.
Yeah, I don’t get that either.
The only point I would concede is number 5.
The charging of interest has given a devious subculture of western civilisation the power to control everything, allowing them to foster wars to further their megalomania.
Number 4, what has marriage got to do with war?
Marriage is a societal tool to maintain a healthy mother/father enviroment for children, it is statistically undeniable that children that grew up in unmarried (non comitted) families or with single parents are far more likely to suffer all kinds of concequences, from drug abuse and psychiatric problems to highly increased risk of becoming a criminal.
Number 3, Pet keeping?
I can only presume that this is some cryptical play on slavery or multiculturalism.
Number 2, eating meat is in no way a bad thing, we are omnivores and meat is an essential part of our diet.
It can also be argued that when one is aware of what it takes to procure meat one is also far more capable of judging the consequences of their actions in every area of life.
Though granted, the way meat is produced and sold in our society is sick and wrong.
Number 1, aside from not really getting the wordplay, who hates women anyway?
Our society is not patriarchal, far from it, if anything a more patriarchical society would be better for women.
Women would be far happier if they were to be freed from the male duties that have been hoisted upon them by the cultural marxists over the last century.
It is the so called ’emancipation’ of women that got us in this mess.
Giving women (and every man regardles of capability) the right to vote has destroyed democracy, because now by their very nature as caring beings, at least half of eligable voters is highly emotionally manipulable and the money power ruthlessly takes andvantage of that fact.
Russia under Putin is a shining beacon of hope in this regard, there tradition and moral values still seem to have a place.
@ anonymous:
I am talking about hidden causes of war. When a hidden idea is opened up it may cause cognitive dissonance and emotional distress, or make no impression at all and remain hidden. It can be denied or looked into further.
This saker site is dedicated to truth, freedom and love, not just war stats and analyses. I try to keep up with the information here and I am also interested in causes. If I don’t know the causes I’m stuck with symptoms. In the case of war that is less than responsible in my opinion.
Still dude … Whatcha talking ’bout? Nowadays there ain’t no “hidden causes of war,” and there sure’s hell ain’t no sense in blaming human nature and the beautiful creatures of the gods. The cause, brother, is the lie. Time to move on, take names and annhilate the father of lies … Que no? Our brother Vladimir knows this. What’s your beef?
“NATO that was shunned by France after November 13th, Paris attacks are once again in the headlines. France has set a precedent for using the EU as the first response to military attack in the continent, marking a decisive shift away from Nato”.
I think this now casts a new light on the Friday the 13th attacks in Paris. I think in light of the downing of this Russian fighter we can safely say this was in fact a NATO operation Gladio style attack on the French in order to get Hollande to invoke article 5 of the NATO defence charter, and having failed in that and getting ever more desperate they then turned to the tin pot would be dictator Erdogan.
This can only get worse before it gets better, if ever. In the meanwhile not one peep out of the EU donkeys and Merkel appears to have vanished off the face of the earth.
Someone in NATO aka the “one indispensable nation” is desperately seeking an excuse for open war with Russia. Be very careful what you wish for……….
At some point Russia will have to respond. As you say, the Paris attacks were an attempt to get NATO involved. There will be continual escalation until Russia either surrenders sovereignty to the US or responds which will initiate war with NATO.
Looking at comments in the guardian, media control no longer works for the hegemon, most readers recognise the US, Turkey Qatar, Saudi Arabia as backers of ISIS and al Qaeda.
The only way forward for the US now is to initiate a full scale war against Russia in the near future.
I get the feeling they think they can run a conventional war using NATO against Russia, perhaps limited to tactical nukes.
Too many crazies in high places.
“Looking at comments in the guardian, media control no longer works for the hegemon, most readers recognise the US, Turkey Qatar, Saudi Arabia as backers of ISIS and al Qaeda”.
I worry about just how representative they are though of the western public. I feel too many people still have their eyes shut as to just what sort of monsters are actually in charge of policy in the west and will only wake up after the missiles start raining down on them by which time it will be too late.
They cannot fight their wars of aggression without Joe Public and I do wish the people will wake up en mass to what is going on. Serving members of the western military forces and the public will be dying for Monsanto, Raytheon, Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs while the evil old men who send them out to die keep their nearest and dearest safe. They implement savage “Austerity” cuts on their own citizens at home while claiming we all have to do some “belt tightening” but they have plenty of money to splash out on their illegal regime change operations and military imperialism abroad.
I wish to thank all sitrep writers! Analytical posters etc etc for keeping blog going so quickly in view of Sakers and international circumstances! Thank you and Saker for close attention and recent article too.
Let’s think.
There are, it seems, two “radar tapes”, and one shows the shoot-down occurring 100% over Syria, the other shows the Russian aviation crossing briefly over Turkey, then being shot down over Syria. Obviously one of these “radar tapes” is fake. Thus two hypothesis exist: 1) the Russians faked the tape. This would mean, since everybody agrees that the Turks shot down the Russian, that the Russians somehow knew that the Turks would do this and when, and thus permitted their own machine to be shot down. This is a very improbable hypothesis. Then, 2) The Turks planned to do it and had a fake tape ready… I’ll leave to the reader which theory works….
Not just the Turks who planned this provocation. Remember the faked “evidence” the zionazi’s Ukrainian proxies spread after they shot down MH17? Same MO, just different proxies. Besides, turkey doesn’t have any say in the zio-media and it’s obvious they were prepared before the crime, as well.
erdogan should be shitting in his pants for a food few years .. but he wont always be in power and when he isn’t, well, accidents happen.
Russian Defense Ministry Video Proves Su-24 Never Entered Turkish Airspace
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20151124/1030695406/mod-su-24-flight-path.html#ixzz3sRZmrXgn
PCR has a very succinct assessment of today’s latest outrage:
Turkey Has Destroyed Russia’s Hope Of Western Cooperation — Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/11/24/turkey-has-destroyed-russias-delusion-of-western-cooperation-paul-craig-roberts/
As always, PCR post is a great read. It is true there is a silver lining from this for Russia: all illusions about partnering with the West shattered, any such hopes were mere foolish illusions, anyway.
And this is Putin’s problem. He is incapable of understanding that his Western “partners” will never accept him, ever. They want Russia destroyed as an independent state. They want him dead or before the ICC.
Europe will never split with the U.S , NATO will never be split. Deal with reality, not fantasy.
Putin should have gotten oil contracts with China done 10 years ago when oil was high. Now, he has zero leverage. And China and Russia are too bull headed to agree to a self defense pact, which is their ONLY solution. Otherwise they will be picked off individually. And soon.
Russia & China have a comprehensive partnership and the defense alliance is de facto. It is not de jure because it will compel supporting players to declare sides. This is exactly what the United States wants. For instance, Washington has been frustrated by Asean’s neutrality in the South China Seas dispute. Most Asian countries, even Australia, do not want to choose between China or USA.
Washington will increase pressure in the case of a formal Sino-Russian pact.
No, Russia will not be defeated by using diplomacy, although that’s not all it will do. Russian thinking, strategy and policy is deep. This event was surely anticipated as a possibility, if even if not probable, with various responses and contingencies considered, and now she is thinking about which set of responses is best in the current situation with which reactions by others. PCR has always assumed that Russia was naive to the evil around, but that’s underestimating Russia, who remembers past wars and betrayals quite well.
Turkey has just shot itself in the foot and will be swamped in what is hitting the fan, with quite a bit of it splattering onto to NATO and the neocons as well — the closer they try to get to defend this the more mess they get on them. Russia can now take military action that would have been politically difficult previously.
I totally agree with you
Search and rescue in Washington looking for Hollande’s gonads. He went to Washington to get the US to join Russia and France and got neutered by the shoot down.
So, if you see any sign of the French President’s balls, please notify French authorities.
He’s heading for Merkel who will probably mount the eunuch tomorrow and show him who’s got the whip.
He’ll be crying by the time he talks with Putin on Thursday.
France has had its moment in the sun. They are back to Liberal Vassal Statehood. It’s a way of life hard to break.
France, a leaderless museum. Malheuresement.
Putin Goes Hard: Cruiser Ordered to ‘Target and Destroy any Potential Threat’
It’s a defacto no fly zone for NATO over Syria
After the downing of Russian jet SU-24, lieutenant general Sergey Rudskoy, a top member of the Russian general staff, sent an important message to Washington / Ankara during a briefing to the media:
“Russia deploys missile cruiser off Syria coast, ordered to destroy any target posing danger”
What does this mean ?
First of all, the missile cruiser Moskva has already been off the coast of Latakia since the beginning of October. This re-affirmation of the deployment is meant to send a very precise message:
Do not even think of pulling off something like what happened today.
Second, the use of the word “ORDER”. This means, most likely, that the authorization to use fire power, has already been given in certain circumstances. Unlike the event we witnessed today where Erdogan had to authorize the strike, no high level authorization will be needed in case of “a hostile threat .”
The Russians literally have their fingers on the trigger.
Given the above, Syrian skies have now effectively become a Russian no-Fly-zone. Washington/Ankara can test this hypothesis at their own peril.
From now on, no messing around. Fore-warned is fore-armed.
http://russia-insider.com/en/things-just-got-very-serious-moskva-missile-cruiser-target-and-destroy-any-potential-threat/ri11419
i think that ” memorandum on air incident prevention” over Syrian airspace is dead. did i understand well Lt.Gen. Sergei Rudskoy from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlJFoIBKQw&feature=youtu.be
??
Complete
Speech of the Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Lt.Gen. Sergei Rudskoy on provocative actions of the Turkish Air Force
is here
http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12066682@egNews
He doesn’t say that Memorandum is dead but that (shooting down Su-24M) is the direct breach of Memorandum on air incident prevention and flight safety.
He also says that Air defence will be reinforced. For that purpose, the Moskva cruiser equipped with air defence system Fort analogous to the S-300 one will go to the shore zone of Latakia. Russian Defence Ministry warns that all the potentially dangerous targets will be destroyed.
So Moskva cruiser was not close to the shore up until now?
yes, now I truly hope some stupid Turkish pilot(s) try to do the same thing again!
Huge problem is not just terrain, clutter, potential ECM jamming because after many months on station, the other side’s listening ELINT would have figured out the frequency hopping, etc.
Look at scale—it’s 200 miles from just offshore Latakia to some parts of Syria/Turk border there off to the east.
Even IF u could count on any ship missile fired hitting the “correct” target (recall the USS Vincennes 1988), even at Mach 3 ca 2250 MPH, it’s 5 minutes to get there.
Any hit & run jets would be miles back inside Turkey by then.
http://allworldtowns.com/data_images/countries/syria/syria-08.jpg
Hence the deployment of the S400. Russian intel knew the Turks might be planning something, but probably did not have specifics of where they were going to do it and when. At double Mach 5 or Mach 10 or topping out above that, Turkish F-16 pilots would have a few seconds after their ECM starts screeching to kiss their asses goodbye.
More slippery oily dealings by that resident sultan of the souk documented:
(article 23rd came out 1 day ago b4 today’s incident)
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/11/turkey-the-country-isis-uses-as-a-home-base-and-where-it-has-sold-800-millions-dollars-of-oil/
Turkey: The Country ISIS Uses As A Home Base And Where It Has Sold 800 Million Dollars Of Oil
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If we truly do want to get rid of ISIS, why aren’t we doing anything about the Islamic governments that are funding them, aiding them and facilitating the sale of their oil? As you will see below, ISIS fighters hop back and forth over the Turkish border with impunity, there are “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members,” and more than $800,000,000 worth of ISIS oil has been sold in Turkey.
Not directly connected to today’s action,but let’s not forget that Brussels(Nato and EU headquarters city)is under state of emergency almost martial law(subway closed,schools,shops also closed,eventhouth they say they will reopen wednesday)BUT the Level 4 alert(imminent attack) stays valid until next monday at the very least.
Rumours are that a chemical(sarin?)attack is forseen….Even in Paris they did not close the subway,shops,schools for so long…
Connecting the dots:
Paris attack….(after Russian plane and Beyrouth attack).Too many links with Brussels(nato gladio patsies?)
Brussels in state of emergency,the city being like after a coup with military everywhere.
Then today we have Erdogan attack against Russia,with NATO full support.
Hollande visiting Obama with as always ”Assad must go and asap”,Russia must start to bomb DAESH and not ‘our’ moderate rebels…etc blablabla
Hollande met Cameron on monday and will meet Merkel tomorrow.
Final stage of ‘Hollande on tour’ being thursday in Moscow.
The Paris gladio psy op did well for the empire and Hollande is already back on tracks.No more attack will happen in Paris,be sure of that Hollande got the message from Washington…but in exchange don’t work with Putin,ever.
Expect more provocations in both Ukraine and Syria.
Highest threat from USAns themselves as the next big “terrorist” attack, judging by reading other forums, is that it will come (likely fully aided & abetted) from that treasonous war-belching POS from Arizonia, from “cross border infiltrating ISISers”, yada yada.
Sounds plausible to me, correct time but a lower possibility, especially with the sheep’s big holiday coming there (more travel & family get togethers than Xmas there) .
I would look to a more deep (as in deep state) in-the-know source, one who has a proven track record of calling the plan, going back to 1995, including 911, the Paris Friday 13th, & lots more.
Since that up to recently unplayed card was from another (prior) deck, what deck do we look at now, in the latest stages of something?
How about the FINAL deck. Makes sense.
We gots a rogue boomer, we gots that fat howling disinfotard “truther” laughing at you while wearing a propeller beanie LOL, we gots…
Look at 6:20…..
If you know the story of one late Roland Carnaby (sp?), then that one may have been pre-empted back in 2009 or so. Or maybe not.
ILLUMINATI CARDS FINAL DECK!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqMbvZ1acc
NATO is a terrorist organisation supporting Turkey. Q will it become the ISIS airforce?
The madman Erdogan is quite clearly supporting ISIS and other al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists, that much is clear without shadow of a doubt and has been widespread knowledge for ages. We now have the NATO secretary general Stoltenberg openly declaring NATO stands by its Turkish ally, can there be any further doubt in the minds of any rational thinking individual that ISIS is indeed an asset of these scumbags ?
The former British SAS soldier Ben Griffin had the courage of his convictions when he refused to go back to Iraq after serving a tour there because he didn’t want to serve with the American soldiers, you can read what he had to say about them in the link below :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1512767/I-didnt-join-the-British-Army-to-conduct-American-foreign-policy.html
They cannot fight their wars for corporate greed without you, Joe Public, on board. It is not they or their loved ones who will be doing the fighting and dying but rather you and your fathers and brothers and sons. You will not be dying for any “freedom” or “democracy” you will be dying for Monsanto and Raytheon and Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs and the petrodollar. Members of western military forces should think long and hard about the direction their psychopathic scumbag leaders who are thoroughly owned by the corporations are taking them in before its too late.
Russia is not Afghanistan or Iraq or Libya and you will not be facing goat herders armed with RPGs and Kalashnikovs this time around. And Russia is also a member of the SCO which also includes China. The neocon psychopaths in Washington are willing to start WW3 to save the petrodollar.
Just watched 10 oclock bbc news of the shootdown and it made me feel physically sick. pure propaganda and misinformation. John Simpson should be ashamed of himself.
Can’t believe we still have to subsidise this rubbish or face jail.
This is pure fascism in action. In Hitlers Germany people were also constantly bombarded with propaganda by the Nazi reich and it was forbidden for the people to listen to any foreign radio stations upon pain of death. They haven’t quite got to the same degree of censorship yet the Nazis had as they are still desperately trying to maintain the illusion they are “democratic” but they are diligently working away at it e.g. the raft of new draconian laws passed by the French government in the wake of the Paris attacks, all in the name of “fighting ISIS” of course.
Anonymous on November 24, 2015 · at 10:15 pm UTC
“Just watched 10 oclock bbc news of the shootdown and it made me feel physically sick. pure propaganda and misinformation. John Simpson should be ashamed of himself.
Can’t believe we still have to subsidise this rubbish or face jail.”
Anon, when my area went digital 4 years ago I didn’t !, I kept my old perfectly usable analogue receivers.
I only use them to watch DVD’s and tapes at Christmas anyway.
No licence is needed to use receivers incapable of taking the signal, sure they tried to hassle me,with letters and a visit once,but I told them to get lost.
I’m sure that Simpson et. al. are just more like Udo Ulfcotte[germany] who admmited to being a paid CIA/BND propaganda outlet for 20+ years.
cheers.
Question for the Saker – a response would be greatly valued.
RT is talking about NATO this and NATO that but Russia is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and also a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Could the Saker tell us what statements of support for Russia’s anti- terror struggle have come from either of these organisations.
Also could you tell us in what ways China is supporting it’s “strategic partner” in these difficult times, China of course is the world’s biggest economy by production, the world’s most populous nation and one o the UN’s 5 Security council members. NATO has plenty to say but what about Russia’s allies?
Is there anything at all from them?
Thanks Scott.
The Russians are saying that the Turkish plane actually entered Syrian air space and shot the plane down. I trust the Russians on this.
https://www.rt.com/news/323329-russia-suspend-military-turkey/
Also Russia deploys missile cruiser off Syria coast, ordered to destroy any target posing danger so will have air defence over that area of Syria and if anyone enters it will be shot down/destroyed. So good luck Turkey and US entering Syrian airspace.
This whole thing stinks to the high heavens. 17 seconds is not sufficient to shoot down a plane which is not attacking you – how about all the times Turkey has violated Syrian air space and its allies? Due to this Syria has every right to shoot down any plane entering its air space too – now eat that Erdogan!
Turkey running to NATO – no apology etc. Well the Turkmen and FSA have just made themselves enemies of Russia – so good luck with calling them moderates………As usual the US not blaming their bitch Turkey and blaming Russia saying going after moderate opposition – so their fault. NATO of course standing with Turkey – telling everyone to stay calm and descalate. The US must have given the nod.
Rgds,
Veritas
France did not appeal to NATO charter and instead appealed to EU solidarity. Then she started making friendly overtures to Russia (or just pretended). Action by Turkey put stop to it. NATO and Russia are now on collision course. French navy with British escorts is in proximity of Russian ships near Syria.
This was not an accident. Turkish derin devlet had this planned with similar structures in Israel and the US. It cannot be excluded that the attack in Paris was meant to suck in France and get its fleet out of harbors and lull Russia vigilance. Now NATO has Russia were it wanted. Their ships are surrounded. Only small contingent (circa 60 planes and 5000 staff and troops) in Syria with supplies problem because Turkey controls Bosphorus.
Who does look like a good chess player now? Putin must have known of such a possibility when taking a gambit of deploying in Syria. So what is his plan B? Erdogan must wake up with horse’s head in his bed. How Putin is going to place it there? W/o revenge Putin loses face and may face coup d’etat. Putin’s conventional weapon forces are too weak to exact revenge and risk escalation. Will Putin give nuclear ultimatum to Turkey? Will Obama save Putin? He owes him for 2013 on poison gas in Syria.
Utu — Russia recalls the tourists from Anatalya, which will take weeks. In the meantime, they can shut off the gas. Erdogan can retaliate by cutting the Bosporous, but that assumes overland supply via Iran and Iraq can’t be done. I think it can, but not in sufficient quantities to sustain the Russian air campaign. The double down is also possible whereby Turkey did this because they knew Russia was about to fly in thousands of Iranian troops to Latakia and the turn them loose on closing the border. If the Turkish army attacked into Syria and killed Iranians, Iran cuts off the gas too. Without two thirds of its gas supplies from Russia and Iran, Turkey’s economy collapses, Bosporos closed to Russia or not. Who’s the better chess player? I guess we’ll find out how much of Washington’s bitches the generals and more importantly the colonels of Turkey are, since they are the ones who have stood by and allowed Erdogan to push it to this point and trash Turkey’s international reputation for the Muslim Brothers and ISIS.
Don’t forget too all this neo-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism has pissed off China. An overt appearance of Chinese assets in the E. Med and a significant delegation overtly showing up at Russia’s air base would send NATO a message they bit off more than they can chew.
Yes, China could be a factor. There are Uyghurs settled by Turkey along Syrian border. But will China risk an engagement?
Closing of Bosphorus would be a casus belli for Russia. This would mean WW III. So this will not happen but it will be apprehensive to navigate and resupply for Russia.
About involvement of Iran I do not know much. It however looked as they were dragging their feet.
Economic sanctions will not work and will take long time. Beefing up Kurds will also take time but in this Russia should have support of Israel.
Still I do not see how Putin will make Erdogan wake up with horse’s head in his bed? I would like to see it.
It´s a strange coincidence that Qatari officials are involved in the downing of the russian tourist plane, and now Turkey shoots down a russian fighter jet.
They are the main parties of the Nabucco pipeline, that would send qatari gas to Europe, through Turkey, eliminating the european dependence on russian gas that goes through Ukraine.
It seems like the russians outsmarted the turkish, luring Erdogan into well planed trap. Putin is at least five steps ahead of its competition.
Hahaha, the west never learns that it should NEVER mess with the russians. Check!
Alparslan Çelik, leader of the Turkman 10th Brigade that shot the pilots as they parachuted.
What’s the odds this guy sees next Springtime alive?
I’m betting Vympel Spetsnaz are on his trail already.
The group of terrorists will find out what hundreds of years of enemies of Russia discovered. The war is never over until you are dead.
His best bet will be to petition Obama for refugee status. Barack Obama comforts the enemies of mankind.
This is between Turkey and Russia. Thank you, President Obama. You are a good president.
going by hollande and obama joint press conference they are not exactly acknowledging the russian led anti-isl coalition…notice how they kept stressing and saying “western led coalition, western led coalition, western led coalition”
That is why PCR is correct, any hopes of cooperation with the West are mere foolish, and deadly, delusions!
Exactly! The objective of Turkey’s action was to make any cooperation impossible.
ERDOGAN 3 years ago
Earlier, Mr Erdogan spoke of Turkey’s “rage” at Syria’s decision to shoot down the F-4 Phantom last Friday and described Syria as a “clear and present threat”.
“A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack,” he said.
He said the Turkish jet had been on a training flight, testing Turkey’s radars in the eastern Mediterranean.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18598529
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/11/pentagon-no-proof-downed-russian-su-24.html
Pentagon: No proof downed Russian Su-24 was in the Turkish airspace
November 24, 2015
TV Zvezda
Translated by Kristina Rus
The Pentagon could not confirm that the downed Russian bomber Su-24 was in the Turkish airspace. This was stated by the representative of the U.S. Department of Defense, Steve Warren, reports RIA Novosti.
“The incident occurred on the border, that’s all I can tell you. We are trying to gather and analyze all the data,” – said Warren.
[…]
Everyone take a deep breath.
NATO is already at war with Russia, on multiple fronts. They are desperate to pull Turkey into a direct confrontation with Russia — because ISIS is disintegrating. They are using a ‘Turkmen’ militia to make life as difficult as possible for Erdogan but these forces are 100% NATO with almost no Syrian Turkmen within.
The Turks immediately contacted NATO, not because they wanted help but because they wanted to know what the HELL is going on.
I know it’s difficult to look past the media mirage but the Turkish military absolutely HATES Erdogan and has always been allied to Israel.
AKP Turkey does not want to help NATO create a Kurdish state on their southern border nor do they want war with Russia. The NATO controlled Turkish army does want war because this is their business and it is very profitable. Bilal Erdogan was a useful prop for them and he got very rich but notice the lack of response when his oil trucks began exploding.
Russia has cut the NATO ISIS artery and since NATO does not have an alternative source of funding they were desperate and needed to raise the stakes.
Finally and most importantly, ISIS and other NATO sponsered terrorist forces are bleeding to death and the crisis for the Stangelove-NATO-Gladio gang is getting worse by the second. When their Paris false flag failed to generate the necessary rallying behind NATO they moved to escalate further. Only NATO has an interest in provoking the bear but so far it is a complete and total failure.
Nothing has changed on the ground in northern Syria. Russia, Syria and Iran are still kicking terrorist butt so much so that Iran is withdrawing forces and redeploying them to Iraq.
Brace yourself. There will be further provocations from NATO because they have no other good options. Expect assasinations of politicians and possibly even attempted coup d’etats in the not too distant future.
And now for the worst part. I have absolutely no doubt that NATO has ‘loose’ nukes, say on container ships in NY harbour, which they will be willing to use, first to blackmail, then if all else fails, to enact long term plans for a complete takeover. This is no joke. They have been excercising the component parts of this strategy for decades, including so-called broken arrow operations, which are not attempts to prevent but to actually steal and make use of nuclear weapons against the wishes of political leaders.
Does anyone recall the mass arrests of US generals including sick f*ck David Patreus and the ousting of Hillary Clinton from State after Obama won re election? These things have been going on for a long time and we owe it to ourselves to be citizens of humanity and do everything we can to stop the NATO coup.
Analysis of El Territorio del Lince. He is saying that Turkey is dependent on Russian gas and that through there could go the first steps in retaliation. Also says that Russia can now create their own no-fly zone to protect their aircrafts, and can arm the Kurds and further strengthen Al Assad. Game over for moderate extremists or extremist moderated backed by NATO/KSA/QATAR.
Try to translate with a translator, guys, I do not have the time now, I have to go to bed, must work in a few hours.
And now, what?
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/
In Spain, some mayors of the new popular initiatives who took charge after the last municipal elections and other known characters from television, cinema, theater and culture promote the “Not In Our Name” initiative, signed a manifesto and call for demonstrations this Saturday in Madrid:
http://www.publico.es/politica/colau-gran-wyoming-kichi-y.html
http://www.publico.es/pages/manifiesto-noennuestronombre.html
No to the war!.
Not in my name!
All to Madrid!
Russia should nuke those gulf states that are only American allies… and not in HATO.
Come what may. When dealing with bullies NEVER BACK DOWN even if you lose you get respect.
Outrageous: US State Dept Response: Turkey and the rebels it backs northern Syria had the right to defend themselves against Russian airstrikes, State Department spokesman told reporters. The rebels reportedly killed one Russian pilot who ejected from the jet hit by a Turkish missile.
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Islamic State, Syria-Turkey
During the regular press briefing, Mark Toner said the Syrian government did not have such a right, though.
When asked by RT’s Gayane Chichakyan if the State Department considered the rebels who reportedly killed the Russian pilots “moderates,” Toner replied:
“We’ve seen conflicting reports. One pilot may not have been killed. If these ‘Turkomen’ were actually being attacked by Russian strikes, they have every right to defend themselves.”
AP’s diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee asked a follow up question.
“Doesn’t that apply to everyone, not just rebels backed by West? Including the Assad regime?”
What the Assad regime was doing “is not self-defense,” Toner countered, arguing that the government in Damascus responded to “peaceful protests with four years of terror.”
When other reporters questioned his description of the Syrian conflict as a “peaceful protest,” Toner brushed them off by saying that “everyone in this room knows what happened.”
Toner repeated several times that Washington stood by Turkey as a NATO ally, and its “right to protect its sovereign airspace”, while refusing to comment on the specifics of this morning’s downing of a Russian jet because, by his admission, he had no details yet.
The State Department spokesman confirmed the US was supplying TOW missiles – seen in a video purportedly showing the rebels destroying a Russian search-and-rescue helicopter – to the “moderates” in northern Syria who were supposedly battling Islamic State forces.
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© الفرقة الاولى الساحليةFSA video claims Russian-made helicopter hit with US-made TOW missile near Su-24 crash site
Another revelation at the briefing on Tuesday was that the “de-confliction” mechanism established between the US and Russia last month to avoid clashes in the skies over Syria did not apply to any other members of the US-led coalition.
Asked by Chichakyan if the State Department would condemn the rebels’ use of US-supplied missiles against a Russian rescue helicopter, Toner replied that Syria was a “very complex environment.”
Repeating that Russia was supporting Assad and directing airstrikes against the “moderate Syrian opposition,” he said that this only increased the urgency to speed up the political transition, so that everyone could focus on fighting Islamic State https://www.rt.com/usa/323339-state-syria-russia-turkey/
Guess this means the Kurds have a right to defend themselves.. And so does IS.. oh wait..
What happened for 3 years?? The US killed millions in their 4 years in Iraq.. In Syria It is only 250k.. Assad has a long way to go to become exceptional.
The US DoS is a loose cannon filled with neocons and war mongers — crazier than the DoD. So now they say ‘make some room at that pile of pooh — we want to wade in and smear it all over us’, while the world, and the old-school imperialists in the US, watch.
Interesting point:
If these ‘Turkomen’ were actually being attacked by Russian strikes, they have every right to defend themselves.”
Considering that these are terrorists this is a tacit admission that Turkey is allied with them — part of the terrorist network — and it seems to be established that they are indeed terrorists (and war criminals by shooting the pilots when in parachutes). We have DoS defending the indefensible, and aligning itself with the terrorists publicly.
RR and Blue
Israel’s pindo pets make their involvement in the crime quite obvious, don’t they.
It is impossible that President Putin had not thought about a back stab by any one of the nations he denounced at G20. So, there is another possibility…the bear is provoking to see who reacts, or who does not have enough nerves to lose and stay silent not to show his cards. Having Turkey shown itself as a very cheap player, President Putin now accuses Turkey of being on the side of ISIS in front of the world, and sends the air defense, de facto generating a no-fly zone in Syria, with approval of President Assad. Very sorry for the life lost of the Russian pilot, but he died in action and that was a risk he knew about.
Whichever way you slice it, stark raving mad Erdogoon humiliated Russia. Never mind the back-stabbing part. Back-stabbing would involve some measure of trust on Russia’s part. I would have never trusted Turkey as far as I can throw then, and unless I’m Superman (or something) that wouldn’t be very far (I’ve said from day one the one to watch out for was Turkey).
To add insult to injury; NATZIOn members are closing ranks and showing they’re siding up with Turkey already.
NATO: We Fully Support Turkey’s Decision to Shoot Down Russian Jet
http://russia-insider.com/en/nato-secretary-general-we-stand-solidarity-turkey/ri11422
On the side lines you have the likes of Ban Ki-Moon (seriously, why is such a non-entity allowed to hold a position such as Secretary-General of the United Nations? He’s no different from other non-entities such as Junker or his predecessor; Rompuy) I was saying… Ban Ki-Moon is urging measures to lower tensions
Ban concerned over downing of Russian plane by Turkish Air Force, urges measures to lower tensions
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=52641
Who the hell is this guy to tell the Russians how to react to this heinous act of aggression?
But it just goes to show that in less than 24 hours after the downing of the Russian jet, each Hegemon pawn are already singing from the same song-sheet, and playing their respective roles (white-hat / black-hat), all aimed in one single direction… against Russia.
If this doesn’t wake-up Russia to the fact that them and their allies [Syria, Iran, Lebanon/Hezbollah, hopefully they’ll manage to get the Chinese on board before is too late] stand alone against NATO…
…nothing will.
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Here’s a great article from FortRuss, illustrated with plenty of historical references too…
The motive: How Russia’s enemies benefit from the downing of Su-24
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-motive-how-russias-enemies-benefit.html
-TL2Q
“…”Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace,”
Obama said non chalantly, on Tuesday at the White House during joint press conference with visiting French President Francois Hollande, who received a treat and a pat in the back… Nice French Poodle.
Europeans have been, to say the least, unreliable partners to Russia. Trusting France on the Syrian Theater, is quite a risky operation. France wants to be a protagonist, and it is not exactly a warrior nation, the French have been emasculated long ago, perhaps their Air Force will prove me wrong, but their military is quite adept at fighting Subsaharan natives, with the French Foreign Legion.
A Trojan Horse?, quite probably until proven otherwise. Too convenient when they always run to the WH before meetings with Putin.
Condolences to the relatives of the Russian Pilot, and the Marine who were murdered by the Turkish Intelligence batallions, hope the remaining pilot is found alive and well.
Russia, will up the ante without a doubt, the Turkish border will be permanently sealed to the Takfiri Terrorists, and it should be onward to Mosul. More oil business to take care of in Iraqui Kurdistan.
Erdogan shot himself on the foot, a menopausical response to the loss of his family oil business.
But, he will learn that it is not good to involve the family in his businesses.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Haven´t they learned that?
If the news are correct, Russian boots are on the ground already. Volunteers, okay let´s call them that. The pincer move would be to take advantage of the Kurdish success at the Eastern Border, and close the intestine that allows the Takfiri to misbehave in Syria. Arm the Turkish Kurds, Igla would be nice. Russia must use every subversive action to demonstrate the Turkish population that they have made a bad choice in keeping the Erdogan Clan in power.
Russian and Syrian presence in Kobani is necessary, so the hegemon does not feel too comfortable inside Kurdish territory.
The economic trade between Turkey and Russia amounts to something like 30 Bill Usd, and was on the rise. That should drop to zero as soon as possible. Russia cannot be generous with its enemies anymore. The Russian soul has sacrifice in its genetic code, nothing Turkish will be missed.
The bad side of everything is that Turkey holds the key to the Black Sea, that is a quandry.
There is no military conflict, so far, if it goes hot, Turkey can efectively shut down the Straits to the Russian Navy, the Montreaux Treaty has that provision.
Russia needs to play the Color Revolution game, it behooves them to change the Erdogan regime in Ankara. No sense in dealing with a wannabe Sultan.
China is probably behind the scenes, in some capacity, without a doubt. But, it would be good to hear some declaration of support for Russia. They are in the crosshairs, they know it, they are the big prize for Erdogan and his Ottoman Empire wet dream.
From Aztlan
re…”Erdogan shot himself on the foot, a menopausical response to the loss of his family oil business.”
LOL “menopausical response”.
Don’t tell anyone but – menopause is a time of great wisdom and power for a woman.
So I don’t think Ergodan is menopausal. He might be off his meds though.
Correct, for Women, since he RTE does not have the gonads to make a direct complaint to Russia about his family interests, he responds in a stereotypical femme fatal manner.
Not that Russia would acommodate his family’s economic interests.
In treating women, I have found that that period is quite ugly, I know and I have great respect for them, to endure so many grave cycles of life changes, few men could handle such.
But, I have to say that I have encountered some rather ugly knee jerk reactions in many, many patients who do not take their treatments…
Russia should unleash an agitation and support the ethnic forces including the Armenians, kurds etc….that make up the Turkish state and work to fragment and dissolve the Turkey as one state entity.Help greece take cyprus and see what Nato will do. Help greece take back any of its islands..if any etc..
Russian MoD confirmed death of navigator and a marine.. The other one was also sht but body has not been found so he would be dead if not rescued fast.
Now we see Russia delivering the 6 Mig31’s to Syria and the S300’s they had ordered.. I bet we will see S400’s in Syria as well as more fighter jets in forward Syrian air bases.. Maybe even more marines to guard those bases from the current 4000 is only enough to cover 2 bases..
Turkey has no friends as neighbors.. A lot of people taunt india as having no friendly neighbors but india do not depend on its neighbors for much of anything. Turkey creates nothing but nuts.. And piss off everyone around them.. Their economy is now as good as dead. Remember king cotton.. Turkey think fuck the Russians and we will take out fresh fruits elsewhere.. Well.. I highly doubt Russia would cut gas deliveries but turkstream is also dead and Russia already said they wont increase delivery volumes. It is the Turkish people who suffer the most because of this arrogance and greed.. Iran sells turkey no gas itself, but sells gas from other countries for a profit to turkey. All the good will and growth turkey experienced will be gone. So will any influence they had in Syria or Iraq..
Over 5 millions Russians visit Turkey.. If they keep going then Russians are no better.. Some travel agencies have stopped taking tour booking to turkey.. Support countries who support you.. Iran, India, China all have vastly cheaper and superior tour facilities….
Syrian Air Defense also confirmed F16’s violated Syrian air space.. Too bad they dont have any working s300’s.. yet.. If Russia does not allow the Syrians to activate the S300 complex then Putin is not worth his salt.. Holding their control codes to please Israel after this would be tantamount to backing down in the face of someone bitch slapping you and telling you to go back to mama.
map posted by col cassad.. screen cap..
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chervonec_001/72877696/270112/270112_600.jpg
It’s clear NATO is dying for a larger war with Russia, I think that much is evident. How France is involved I have no idea. They just happen to be the latest terrorist victim, feels like it could have been anyone. I don’t think France has enough pull or will power to make their own alliance with Russia. They are most likely following NATO/EU/US orders. Turkey or someone will find a reason to shoot down more Russian aircraft. How much before a large escalation? 5? 10? 50? How Russia responds means everything. For the moment, Russia needs to exercise restraint and concentrate on winning the ground war. They may be able to kick Isis out of Syria permanently in 4 or 5 months. This appears realistic now. It didn’t just a short time ago. I would not co-operate with the French air craft carrier. Smells like a trap…keep away from them as best as possible. If Russia can keep their eye on the prize 2016 may feature a hero’s welcome for Russians in Damascus.
I wonder? No one likes Erdogan, in act many have a strong dislike as an understatement. Could this be a set up a la “go ahead and invade Kuwait. We [the USA] think nothing of it”. For this we will have to wait and see what the NATO meeting comes out with. Either way I would not want to be an Erdogan family member right now….or ever.
Flight data recording from nato has been doctored.. You can easily figure out an outlet that is for propaganda use from just this one example.. The Russian Mod shows objective GPS based data on the SU24’s position.. Syrian air defence also closely watching the area says the SU24 did not violate Turkish air space and F16 crossed over into Syria.. And some of the blatant lies by turkey should make the entire narrative by them suspect.. Warning for 5 minutes? You can not warn an aircraft in someone else’s air space.. Objective data shows no attempt to warn any body.. Also this was not an air support mission but a bombing one so nato flight data showing the SU24 loitering to find a target is blatantly doctored.. They use SU25’s for close air support and attack helicopters.. Not SU25’s.. And with so many targets Russia has not moved to close air support from bombing static locations. many sites seem to use doctored nato data.. But different graphs all showing minor violation of Turkish air space..
http://im1.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/DAILY/2015/217/_2015d217-01-01.jpg
Kurds are saying The guy who executed the Russian pilot is a Turkish citizen.. How is he a moderate Syrian terrorist?
His name is Alparslan Çelik. He is from Keban district of Elazığ province. From Turkish neo-nazist Grey Wolf movement. Son of ex-mayor.
“Turkmen commander” who proudly admitted killing the 2 pilots? He’s not Turkmen. He’s Turkish citizen.
Russian State TV reports on Turkey’s profit from selling contraband oil from Syria to Norway, US, etc.$15 per barrel
Turkish media presented him as “Turkmen commander”
http://www.dha.com.tr/dhavideogaleri.asp?vid=1080006
A number of points condensed
Prior to G20 no one was striking ISIS oil convoys. Days after Russia released hell upon 500 tanker trucks and US halfheartedly followed on another 100 more with leaflets dropped first as a warning. Why? Bilal Erdogan most likely on the list of exposed traitors to humanity for his role in support of ISIS and profiteering off of illegal head chopper oil. Apple does not fall far from tree.
Escalation with Turkey closes the Sea of Marmara to Russia and thus its most efficient route to support its troops in Syria. NATO may not and does not have to openly support this as Turkey with its NATO arsenal can be a very effective thorn in Russia’s side unilaterally. Sorry, but this is true. Meaning retaliatory military action by Russia is highly counterproductive to its objective.
As far as guns in the fight, it must be accepted as fact, Russia has less combat assets in this fight than what is required to win. And, less “allies” willing to step in and assist with flesh and blood fighters. I expect much disagreement with this but it is reality. By conventional means, Russia has done very well in their development into a modern fighting force but is still out gunned by the vast western alliance when it comes down to it without going nuclear.
France will not turn on US interests. They may productively fight ISIS for a while but, make no mistake, they will not turn on the US to support Russian interests instead.
Ahh, the pipelines important enough by some to unleash the minions of hell for… Currently Russia could win Syria conflict 100% and still the pipelines will never be completed. Where must it still go through? Turkey. US perspective is they have already won. Let Russia, Iran and Iraq fight it out with ISIS. So what? This week it should be clear. There will never be a Pipeline through NATO controlled Turkey supplying Iranian or Russian gas to Europe.
That is how I see the current facts as the chess pieces have been played so far. Very grim. The Russians pride themselves on chess but I would say this: When the chicken gets up on the table and knocks all the chess pieces over, you don’t try to continue to play chess. You stand up and knock his beak off.
Right now it would be a mistake to do this militarily, as it would play into the Empire of Caos’s hand. The game must be played at the level of the dominant player.
Turkish Regime must be outed to the world. They are a terrorist supporting state. It is the current sitting regime in Turkey who is the enemy to Russia not the whole of Turkey. Isolate the regime from the people in all actions and words. Do not say from this moment forward “Turkey” did this or that. It is the terrorist supporting current regime that did it. Has Turkey always been an enemy to Russia? No, but many regimes in power were. Regimes come and go.
Take the page from US. We liberated Iraq from the Hussein regime and are still effectively isolating Assad from his people by simply referring to the legitimate government as a regime. US liberated Lybia from the Gaddafi regime and introduced them to pure hell on earth as the world quietly watched. All that based on pure lies a slick propaganda. Imagine what Russia could do with TRUTH wrapped up in slick western style speech.
I will close with this humble suggestion. Putin should speak to the people of the world. Not in a venue of world leaders but in the forum format which has made him a true legend in my opinion. A forum of citizens of many countries as he does with Russians. Do not ever underestimate what could be done this way. We all have a dog in the fight. Given the truth and a choice, how far would I go to support my own country’s interests? I can tell you my choice. I would not fight and die for a government who has used the pure embodiment of evil in this world to destabilize and terrorize another country’s citizens for some damn pipeline. My soul is worth more than that.
Turkey can not block the straits which would mean an act of war.. Which also means 60% of gas stops.. Most likely Iran stops the other 20%..
Ankara defends ISIS, Turkish officials have financial interest in oil trade with group – PM Medvedev
Some Turkish officials have ‘direct financial interest’ in the oil trade with the terrorist group Islamic State, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev said as he detailed possible Russian retaliation to Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane in Syria on Tuesday.
“The reckless and criminal actions of the Turkish authorities… have caused a dangerous escalation of relations between Russia and NATO, which cannot be justified by any interest, including protection of state borders,” Medvedev said.
“Turkey’s actions are de facto protection of Islamic State,” Medvedev said, calling the group formerly known as ISIS by its new name. “This is no surprise, considering the information we have about direct financial interest of some Turkish officials relating to the supply of oil products refined by plants controlled by ISIS.”
According to Medvedev, Russia is considering canceling several important projects with Turkey and barring Turkish companies from the Russian market. Russia has already recommended its citizens not to go Turkey citing terrorist threats, which have resulted in several tourist operators withdrawing tours to Turkey from the market.
https://www.rt.com/news/323373-ankara-defends-isis-medvedev/
Forgot to put my name to post earlier.
mmiriww, I am under the impression that the Turkish Regime could use the airspace “violation” combined with any retaliatory strike by Russia to invoke UN Arcticle 5 and thus within it rights on the treaty to those straits (forget treaty name) close passage to enemies of the state. It is only peacetime conditions which that passage must remain open to all.
Regarding the use of soft power (economic pressure) as a response I think is quite appropriate. Part of that I think should be to continue to heavily focus on striking the ISIS oil tanker convoys, it sends a bad message to back off on those after this incident. I think economic pressure should be put in areas which heavily affect the current Turkish regime’s pocket book and not the whole of Turkey.
I heard the Turkmen that fired on the parachuting pilot have already been annihilated by Russia with Turkish airforce told to stand down by Erdogan to allow it. I have not read confirmation of this. That I do think is a perfect military response to the situation.
Also, I think it is a mistake to refer to ISIS as Islamic State. It implies legitimacy to a terrorist organization. Armies of a “State” are entitled to certain protections under the Geneva convention that terrorist organizations are not.
In Syria UKUSA regimes are fighting against Russia.
I was just saying s400’s will show up in Syria and control codes for Syrias S300 will be given to them to operate it as well as the 6 mig’s Syria had ordered..
S-400 Will be Deployed at Syrian Airbase Hmeymim – Russian Defense Minister
Military & Intelligence
Russia will deploy S-400 defense missile systems to Hmeymim airbase in Syria, Russian Defense Ministry Sergey Shoygu said Thursday.
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151125/1030713024/russian-defense-missiles-syria-deployment.html
Quite frankly I am surprised Russia lasted this long without getting a plane shot down, It is one plane in a war. Now there will be more on both sides and this came direct from USA Turkey is just the delivery mechanism as a syringe is to a drug. The problem is Erdogan is just stupid enough to listen to them.
RR
for what it is worth: ISIS just about wiped out in Syria more commentary provided by link TWSP/UFAA Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 25, 2015
MADMAN ERDOGAN OF TURKEY, No capitals please. Its like shouting. People can read link. Mod TR. http://twsp.us/briefing/20151125
It must be somewhat worrying for Russia that their bomber was shot down without the pilot being aware of this risk. Could someone with military knowledge explain to me why this has happened with so much ease?
I think it was in the interview with the navigator that he said — translated as — that they were flying in ‘nominal mode’, which sound like there was no reason they should have looking for something. They might have been aware that there were planes in Turkish space of course, but why should that be suspicious? It’s as if you were walking somewhere next to a co-worker and they suddenly hauled off and hit you for no reason.
This is explained in some of the other posts..
At first all bombing missions had fighter escorts.. Then Russia and the US signed a de-escalation understanding that planes from other countries would not be targeted and a way to avoid confrontation. So fighter escorts were stopped.. After hundreds of missions the Russian Pilots also thought they did not have to worry about US fighters shooting them down hence even with radar showing another plane approaching them, they ignored it according to ROE. They were preparing the landing sequence and at 20 miles would have taken them a minute to land.
The F16 instead of turning back, entered Syrian air space and shot the missile from the back and this was confirmed by the anna news team who were right under the flight path in SAA territory and in the 2 seconds the pilot did not realize they were fired upon and from what the navigator said, only after they were hit did they realize it as they were preparing the landing preparation..
Usually the missiles would be fired from 10-20 miles away and you have 10 seconds or so to react.. Not expecting it and at less than 1KM, there was no time to realize an ambush.. Hence why an ambush is so effective..
But now we see SU30 escorts and bombing runs far closer to Turkish territory and there is no difference between moderate, liver eaters or head choppers.. ROE for both Russia and Syrian military are to shoot first and then ask questions at any provocations. Yes Syria can now fire at Turkish military if they are targeted.. remember, Turkey would shell Syrian positions so terrorists could over run them and that is how they took over most northern Syrian cities.. Now cross border shelling is allowed… I think if Turkey which just stationed tanks at the border shoots Syrian soldiers like they did at the Syrian border crossings, those tanks inside Turkey would be bombed..