Turkish president says Russia should apologize after jet downing

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Russia should apologize for violating Turkey’s airspace, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Thursday, days after a Russian jet was shot down near the Syria border.

“Those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologise,” Erdogan was quoted as saying on the CNN website.

“Our pilots and our armed forces, they simply fulfilled their duties, which consisted of responding to … violations of the rules of engagement. I think this is the essence.”

Also on Thursday, Erdogan denied that Turkey bought any oil from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, insisting his country’s fight against the militants was “undisputed.”

“Shame on you. Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh (ISIS) are obliged to prove it. If not, you are a slanderer,” Erdogan said, lashing out at Russian charges after the downing of the warplane.

Tuesday’s incident prompted a tough response from Moscow, a major trade partner and Turkey’s second biggest energy supplier after Iran.

But Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara did not need to apologise “on an occasion that we are right,” adding that he had already said “sorry” in a phone call with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced the act as a “stab in the back” by “accomplices of terrorists.”

But Erdogan denied Ankara was collaborating with ISIS.

“Our country’s stance against Daesh has been clear since the very beginning,” Erdogan said in a speech to local officials at his presidential palace in the Turkish capital.

“There is no question mark here. Nobody has the right to dispute our country’s fight against Daesh or to incriminate us.”

Turkey and Russia stand on opposing sides of the four-year Syrian conflict, with Ankara pushing for the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad by backing moderate opposition rebels.

Moscow is one of the few remaining allies of the Damascus regime.

Russia further enraged Turkey with the launch of its air campaign in Syria in September, accusing Moscow of focusing its fire on moderate rebels rather than ISIS militants.

“Those who carry out a military campaign with the pretext of fighting Daesh are targeting anti-regime opponents,” Erdogan said.

“You say you are fighting Daesh. Excuse me, but you are not fighting Daesh. You are killing our Turkmen kinsmen hand-in-hand with the regime in order to clear areas north of Latakia,” he said, referring to the Syrian port city.

ISIS extremists have severely damaged Islam and the Muslims, he said, but added there was no difference between “an organization’s terror and state terror,” referring to the Assad regime.

Erdogan called Russia a “strategic partner” which he said required solidarity rather threats. “We are saddened by this,” he said.

“There is no reason for us to target Russia with which we have multi-faceted and very strong ties, without any border violation,” he noted, saying that disagreements with Moscow over the Syrian crisis and Ankara’s activating its military rules of engagement were two separate things.

“If the same incursion happens today, Turkey will be obliged to retaliate.”
Erdogan also hit back at Putin’s charges that Turkey’s leaders were encouraging the Islamisation of the country.

“How dare you speak like that,” said Erdogan. “Ninety-nine percent of Turkey is Muslim.”

REUTERS/ AFP/ AL ARABIYA
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61 responses to “Turkish president says Russia should apologize after jet downing”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    the tsar and the sultan at loggerhead
    such a beautiful sight
    popcorn anyone?

  2. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
    Michaelinlondon1234

    American propaganda. I have said for a while now the only thing the USA will understand is nukes landing on American cities.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar

      Israël, France are launching a new war in Iraq and Syria. The objective is no longer to overthrow the secular Syrian regime, nor to destroy its army, but to create a colonial state straddling the border between Iraq and Syria, to be managed by the Kurds, in order to apply a stranglehold on the Arab states. The dream of an Israeli nation between the Nile and the Euphrates is back.”

      http://bsnews.info/france-and-israel-launch-a-new-war-in-iraq-and-syria/

      1. Meyssan became a staff member of the Radical Party of the Left, Meyssan is currently living in Damascus, Syria. He is a journalist for the Russian weekly magazine Odnako

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar

          Meyssan wrote in 2011: “Christians of the Orient stand up against Western recolonization”.
          Zionist have no more the monopoly on radicalism
          Meyssan covered Sarakozy interview with al Rai in Paris, where he told the Lebanese Patriarch ” Prepare your people for an Exodus to Europe” before all this happened.
          Before Christian began to be killed in Syria…

      2. About BSNews ‘BS’ (short for ‘bullshit’)

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar

          Right, they mean NATO news is BS.

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar

          ‘From smoking weed to sexual harassment, Israel’s Knesset members struggle with scandal’..

          What are doing here? Aren’t you protesting your arrogant lazy government scandalous sexual embarrassments or corruption.

          http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/israel-knesset-scandals-magal-hazan-gal-young-electorate.html?utm_source=Al-Monitor+Newsletter+%5BEnglish%5D&utm_camp

        3. Hind Abyad Avatar

          Right, they mean NATO news is BS.

      3. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
        Michaelinlondon1234

        Interesting read thank you.

        The Israel dream did not work out real well for them the last time.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar

          “Turkey Shoots Down More Than Just a Russian Jet 26 NOV 2015”
          https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/151468596a7b601d

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar

      “Has the Zionist Lobby Hijacked the US Congress? by Ludwig Watzal / November 21st, 2015”
      http://bsnews.info/was-the-u-s

  3. Reasonableman Avatar
    Reasonableman

    No daesh in the northern part of latakia. That is all

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar

    ‘The attack on the Russian plane was preconceived on November 22 when a security summit was held with the Turkish government under Prime Minister Davutoğlu and the Turkish Armed Forces. Davutoğlu personally gave the order to shoot down Russian planes. This, Turkey says, was necessary to stop Russian bombing of “Turkmen” in north Syria’s Latakia near the Turkish border!.

    http://bsnews.info/was-the-u-s-involved-in-the-turkish-attack-against-the-russian-jet/

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      And they all do it … one reason NORAD scrambles regularly to meet with Russians over the Arctic and say: ‘Yes Boris, We’re still watching you. Time to turn around.’
      This past year, one came within 200 miles of California, to say ‘Happy 4th of July, Yankee’.
      Chuckle.chuckle.
      The question is always about when to take the shot. The weapons of today are not the same as the old ‘shot across the bow’ to make an ‘adventurous sort’ turn the wheel – they keep following even after the wheel turns – and they do their own thing … For instance, they don’t say to themselves: ‘Oops. Idiots fired me at a passenger plane. I better go into the ocean like a cannon-ball’.
      SO, it’s all about ‘testing’ resolve of ‘those guys’ by megalomaniac ‘pushers’ – be they Privateers or Religionists banding together. Adventurers on Bounding Mains were not any different.

      WHEN did Turkey become 99% Muslim ??? When were the ‘Turkmen’ areas part of Turkey???
      WHEN did Crimea become only Russians ??? When did all the ocean in the far east become ‘China’???

      The ‘Adventurers’ will continue their Bluster, and continue ‘Testing The Waters’ and ‘Creating Incidents’ until they lower world populations once again, in ALL their ‘Righteousness’ – because one day a wheel won’t be turned EXCEPT INTO the Fray … OR, the rudder of the Fat Galleon simply won’t respond to the wheel as quickly as some small megalomaniac thinks it should.
      And even the Megalomaniacs can’t discount the Pinhead aiming the cannon being one who simply hates to waste a shot. And for THAT they will find ANY excuse except to say ‘We were wrong’.

  5. Hind Abyad Avatar

    “ISRAEL HOPES TO COLONIZE PARTS OF IRAQ AS “GREATER ISRAEL” FEBRUARY 2, 2009
    Is the year Netanyahu sold Golan Heights oil & gas security shares to Rothschild and Murdoch, before 2011 rebel “War”.
    http://www.infowars.com/israel-hopes-to-colonize-parts-of-iraq-as-greater-israel/

    1. The fragmentation of Iraq has been in the words for over three decades. A trigger was required, 9/11 was made it.

    2. Fool, Wayne Madsen – conspiracy theorist

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar

        All conspiracies proved to be true.

        Invited at the Elysee the 5th of September 2011, S.B. Bechara Boutros Rai, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the entire Middle-East (the head of the most important Church in the Middle-East that is attached to Rome) heard that France and its allies will soon intervene militarily in Syria to establish the Muslim Brothers as the leaders of the country. The Cristians of the Orient, who would lose their place in society, would then have to prepare themselves for the exodus and could find refuge in Europe.
        © Présidence de la République – P. Segrette
        (but media owned by the west..and Yalibnan denied it)

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          If so, then it is high time for some real confessions, by those who say they believe a confession is good for the soul. The Tops of all the Churches should Publish.

        2. The picture is very flattering. Looks like definite proof of whatever insane conspiracy theory promoted in the text above which I didn’t bother to read.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Don’t bother to read.. go back to lazy Harry’s place.

            The picture is very telling of Al Rai and his Bishops anger and outrage coming out of the infamous meeting. Sarkozy told the Patriarch “Prepare your people for an Exodus to Europe”
            Before the Syrian Moslem Brotherhood and West started the Syrian “Spring” proxy war.

    3. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
      Michaelinlondon1234

      Also selling arms to Armenia. Billions worth…..Just for info.

      1. Israel does not sell arms to Armenia. It sells to Azerbaijan, Armenia’s Shiite Muslim foe (and Israel’s closest ally in the region). Armenia is a military ally of Russia, which provides almost all of its arms and has trainers in the country as well.
        I understand that you want to make up fantasies and ascribe all power to the Jews, but seriously, you might want to get the sides right.

        1. You are being far too civil with this evidently brain-dead moron who couldn’t find Armenia on the map.

          1. Sometimes I wonder why I argue with genocidalists too.

    4. Uh, this is an article about Turkey and Russia and you quote a weirdo conspiracy site about a fantasy Israel-taking-over-the-world scenario?
      Jew hatred is a hell of a drug.

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar

        Yes Yalibnan monitor, i write about conspiracies..it all has to do with this article.
        More than 500 jihadists cared for at the Ziv Medical Centre
        http://www.voltairenet.org/article189411.html

        France and Israël launch a new war in Iraq and Syria
        http://www.voltairenet.org/article189385.html

        1. Okay, the Jews again.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            “Several journalists who were participating in a media tour organised by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) were able to visit the Ziv Medical Centre, in Zefat (North Israël). The hospital has at its disposal a service specialising in war traumatology. It is government-run and linked to the Israeli Defence Forces. In this context, it treats Syrian « refugees ».

            While the rest of the group – the assistant chief editor of the Daily Telegraph, Ben English ; the journalist fromSeven News, Alex Hart ; the political reporter from Sky News, David Lipson ; the chief editor of the Australian Financial Review, Aaron Patrick ; the head of the political column of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Bevan Shields – followed the organisers, a famous journalist from News Corp, Sharri Markson, stayed with some of the patients in order to hear their stories. She was thus able to confirm that more than 500 of them are members of Al-Qaïda, wounded during the fighting in Syria. She was able to note the details of the manner in which they had been transfered to Israël to receive hospital care, and then sent back to continue the jihad in Syria. She was then arrested by security officers.

            In September 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created a photo-op in this hospital when he came to visit and praise the Al-Qaïda jihadists.

            The jihadists had kidnapped the UNO observers from the Philippines and Fiji charged with keeping an eye on the cease-fire line in occupied Golan. During negotiations for their release, the United Nations paid a ransom to Al-Qaïda which was then transferred to a bank account without provoking any international inquiry in order to identify the beneficiary. Finally, the Blue Helmets retreated, so that today, the Israeli and Syrian armies are separated not by the UNO, but by Al-Qaïda.”

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar

        Representatives of the Jewish community warned of Paris attack (Times of Israel) (?)
        http://www.voltairenet.org/article189326.html

        1. Yup, the Jews once more! They know everything! No wonder they run the world and destroyed all your ambitions! I was wondering about that.

          1. Even more damning is the link to voltairenet: a gathering place of conspiracist dregs and degenerates of all shapes and sizes.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Stop accusing me of being anti Jewish like Barry, the Wailing Wall.
            Talk to Jews who are anti-Zionists.

            “Voltaire” warned Christians when Patriarch al Rai was in invited to the Élisée by Zionist France President Sarkozy in 2011. Before Christians were ethnically cleansed raped and beheaded

          3. I never accused you of that (mostly because I don’t really care). Posting crap from the degenerates lurking at Voltairenet is indicment enough.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar

            We have nothing further to talk Christian hater

          5. Not that we were actually talking, but “Christian hater”?? I’m genuinely perplexed.

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar

            “Posting crap from the degenerates lurking at Voltairenet is indictment enough.”
            The 2011 article was on the survival of Christianity in the Levant, Sarkozy meeting with al Rai Patriarch of Lebanon and the whole Middle East. Have a nice day..
            (why am is surprised by a Zionist..hhh…)

          7. Voltairenet is a site where the scum of humanity congregates. Some of them may even be (or pretend to be) Christians. I don’t discriminate: they are all a worthless pile of shite, just as all the “articles” they publish. How that makes me a “Christian hater”, I dunno.

          8. Very subtly and nicely put ;))

          9. Yes if one doesn’t agree with it, it labels one a “Christian hater”. It’s usual daft mare response

          10. Hind Abyad Avatar

            What ambitions?

  6. Hind Abyad Avatar

    Too late now. In 2011 Voltaire published “WILL WAR BREAK OUT IN SYRIA?”

    “Christians of the Orient stand up against the new Western colonialism”
    by Thierry Meyssan

    http://www.voltairenet.org/article171673.html

    1. “In 2011 Voltaire published…”
      Voltaire has been dead for more than two centuries. Voltairenet are not a relation. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the real Voltaire, for all his flaws, is turning in his grave over these degenerates’ abuse of his memory.

  7. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
    Michaelinlondon1234

    Someone in Turkey intentionally gave the order to shoot down the plane…..Who. We know the US is embedded in the Turkish military…So was it one of the mad mullah US generals?

    1. It was a Mossad stooge. Mark my words, brother, a day will come when all these treacherous Pollards will be exposed by true Patriots.

  8. Hind Abyad Avatar

    France Starts Shutting Down Alternative Media
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BPNzxLcF08

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Move to Canada …. 😉
      http://wearechange.org

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar

          I know about it, suppressed in West, and Yalibnan have been completely silent. Israel bought shares in YaLibanana..

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar

        DonaldTrumpGreatWall (via Twitter) 20:03 (Il y a 20 minutes)
        à Hind
        DonaldTrumpGreatWall a aimé votre Tweet.

        Haha…!

  9. Hind Abyad Avatar

    Saudi Arabia is about to behead a 21-year-old man and thencrucify his body in public. This same country was just chosen to head a UN Human Rights Council panel. What staggering hypocrisy!

    https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_saudi_beheading_rb2_global/

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Signed. sealed, delivered … and along with almost 2 million others, probably ignored.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          Sinjar was a blood-bath. But might as well pump some more weaponry into the place.
          Smiles & Chuckles all around ….
          (Sometimes you have to wonder about the difference between Takfiri & Taqqiya. Sort of Fits them all to a ‘T’.)
          ABBA was right …

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Who’s ABBA..God?
            Looks like governments are mafia.

          2. No abba isn’t. But rabik bidee neekoo

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar

            No … 2 Godesses … 😉

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar

            “Goddesses” ..Egyptian goddess Isis was initially an obscure goddess who lacked her own dedicated temples, but she grew in importance as the dynastic age progressed, until she became one of the most important deities of ancient Egypt.
            Her cult subsequently spread throughout the Roman Empire, and Isis was worshipped from England to Afghanistan. She is still revered by pagans today.”

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar

            Very good … got me … mmmmm … (mysterious case of missing ‘d’ .. tired fingers. ;-))
            I will edit … hehe ..

  10. Dog eats dog, and the world suffers.

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