On 11/24/2015 06:37 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
If you ignore several centuries of political machinations and outright warfare then yes, Russia has been pretty friendly to Turkey. With friends like Putin, who needs enemies... Peter.
With two-faced authoritarian mass-murdering (est. millions of Kurds in the last few years) jackasses like Ergodan who needs friends:
"A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack” - Turkish President Erdogan, 2012, after Syria downed a Turkish AF F-3 Phantom
https://www.rt.com/news/323369-turkey-downed-russian-jet/ Now that it turns out it WASN'T the US State Department backed FSA that shot down that SU-24 and murdered the pilots while ejected (the equivalent Geneva Convention war crime would be indiscriminately killing non-resisting POWS...), but Turkmen commanded by a TURKISH CITIZEN, I just can't wait for that Russian Missile frigate with orders to "Destroy any Threat" to feel, umn, threatened. Incinerating the presidential palace in Ankara like the US incinerated most of Baghdad would be a good start, and millions of Turks would cheer. RR