This is going to go down in history as one of the biggest military blunders of all time. Why the hell did Syria attack their neighbor? They were going to be left free to essentially commit genocide with zero consequences. Now, they’re going to get carpet bombed.
It makes no sense…no?
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey said Monday it would push NATO to consider Syria’s downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance.
The announcement came on the eve of a meeting by NATO’s governing body to discuss the incident. Despite deep frustration among many NATO countries over the conflict in Syria, where the opposition says President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on an increasingly armed popular uprising has killed 14,000 people, it’s highly unlikely the military alliance will take armed action against the Arab state.
The unarmed RF-4E reconnaissance jet was shot down a mile inside international airspace on Friday, and two Turkish pilots are still missing, the Turkish government says. It has insisted the plane was not spying on Syria.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc also said for the first time Monday that Syrian forces had opened ground fire on a CASA search and rescue plane shortly after the downing, but did not say if that plane was hit.
Arinc said Turkey retained its right to “retaliate” against what he called a “hostile act,” but he added, “We have no intention of going at war with anyone.”
Still, he added that Turkey will push NATO to consider the jet’s downing under Article 5 in a key alliance treaty. Article 5 states that an attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members.
The North Atlantic Council — which includes ambassadors of the 28 NATO countries — works by consensus and all members must approve any action. The meeting Tuesday comes after Turkey requested it under Article 4 of the treaty, which allows a NATO ally to request such a consultation if it feels its territorial integrity or security has been threatened.
Asked if Turkey will insist on the activation of Article 5 of NATO, Arinc said, “No doubt, Turkey has made necessary applications with NATO regarding Article 4 and Article 5.”
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Its very simple. Answer is, because it was us. haha. or perhaps the russians made them to it.
regards
chuck
ed-zachary!
we had to have syria attack a russian ally (turkey), in order to get an internationally legal pretext for entering syria to remove the local petty tyrant … if not, the situation could have blown into ww3 with china & russia backing no action in syria & the west drooling to get in
if you really want to get into conspiracy theories, one could say that russia told turkey to fly one of their russian made jets barely over syrian air space in order to get it shot down, so that russia could back off their defense of the syrian dictator/murderer of his own disloyal subjects
Juice, when did Russia start building F-16’s?
u right. .. my bad 🙁
Lol I’m open to conspiracy here. Or else someone in Syria beckons death upon themselves
Cain, from what I’ve read the Syria has grounded their air force due to the large number of defections. Generals are leaving with their families and seeking asylum in Turkey. Another pilot flew into Jordan and sought asylum. Assad is a crazy evil animal.
I’m not sure Assad in charge any more. He’ll be held responsible, but I think he let the Tiger out of it’s cage. Same as Mubarack
turkey is testing to see if they have become powerful enough to invoke an article 4-5. if nato sides with them,then the rest of the me will get the shit scared out of them.and they know it. turkey will then be the proxy to go thru for enforcement needs. who better to do the job than the real barbarians of all civilization.