It finally happened. November 24
th
, 2015 became a turning point for the Russian-Turkish relations. The two sides will probably never agree with each other on who is to blame for the SU-24 tragedy and ... ... than real. Today Turkey arguably feels more pain than Russia does. Grounding the Russian aircraft has not helped to protect the Syrian Turkmen population close to the Turkish border; on the contrary, Turkmen opposition groups are more vulnerable now than ...
It is time for the West to end to its economic sanctions on Russia.
As Russia's response to this week's Turkish crisis shows, force need not be met by force in an ever-escalating spiral.... ... intransigent.
Russia by contrast has acted in a mature and responsible manner. It has reaffirmed
its commitment
to the war in Syria and announced that it will deploy additional
anti-aircraft missiles
to the country but has refrained from taking any lethal ...
The incident that occurred in the skies over Syria when a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 got the whole world talking about how close we came to an all-out conflict in the Middle East. Some commentators have suggested that today we are closer to an open conflict between Russia and NATO than ever before since the collapse of the ...
