The Turkish Air Force is no longer supporting the air war on ISIS.
According to Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, the Turkish Air Force has suspended the missions over Syria of its aircraft supporting the international air campaign against ISIS.
This is the effect of the unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Ankara and Moscow sparked by the downing of the Russian Su-24 Fencer bomber by a TuAF F-16 after the alleged and controversial violation of the Turkish airspace on Nov. 24.
According to the Turkish authorities, the Su-24 violated Ankara’s airspace (for 17 seconds) and did not respond to 10 warnings in 5 minutes, radioed by a TuAF GCI (Ground Controlled Intercept) station while the aircraft, along with another one of the same type approached the border. Russian authorities deny this report and claim no warning was issued by the Turkish and no violation occurred at all.
Following the incident, the TuAF said that the warnings, on a dedicated mutually agreed radio channel and the international Guard (emergency) channel (243.0/121.5 MHz), were not answered by the Russian plane that continued to fly towards the Turkish airspace, leading the Turkish Air Force to believe the intruding aircraft was not Russian but Syrian.
One of the Su-24 pilots was killed by fire from the ground after successfully ejecting from the plane in flames whereas the second pilot was rescued in a 12-hour-long operation
Actually, according to the Turkish media outlet, the decision was mutual and aimed at preventing the repetition of the incident along the border: on one side, TuAF jets will no longer take part in the air war on Islamic State, on the other one, the Russians will halt their raids near the Syria-Turkey border.
In the meanwhile, Moscow has deployed the S-400 air defense system at Latakia air base as the following video shows.
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Where did I’ve made such an affirmation? It was you who invoked history,
and concluded: “Russians had something coming, and they go it”.
We’ll probably never know the full truth, but bits can be found here, and there. All are lying more, or less to cover their acts.
It’s still a bit awkward to compare air violations made deeply in soviet airspace, with sensitive military installations, that concluded with civilian airliners shot down, with the criminal act of shooting a civilian airliner, which respected all laws, and regulations in foreign airspace, while simultaneously violating the same nations waters, and attacking it’s navy. The latter you still tried to excuse, probably influenced by your gov/media propaganda.
Please read the following material, for a better background on the incident:
http://alt-f4.org/img/seaoflies.html
and you could also read the following, for a larger view:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/07/11/the-shoot-down-of-iran-air-flight-655/
The first two incidents could probably be avoided, if the yanks wouldn’t had regularly violated soviet/eastern block airspace. Francis Gary Powers rings a bell? How many soviet spy planes were violating, or shot down over yank/western block airspace?
It’s the obsessive yank/brit spying that is pulling a dark veil over the whole world even today…
@E1-Kabong On a scale of 0 to 5, how strong do you actually believe what you’re saying ?
Mo, on a scale from 1 to 10, how much of a troll do you think you are?
How Islamic State Oil Flows to Israel http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-isis-rockefellers-how-islamic-state-oil-flows-to-israel/5491897
Russia’s innocence in what ?
do not forget Serbia