kimon07 wrote:Kikapu wrote:kimon07 wrote:Newly-supplied Russian Buk-M2 anti-air missile used to down Turkish warplane
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 23, 2012, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
http://www.debka.com/ Syria Friday shot down the Turkish Super Phantom jet with the sophisticated self-propelled medium range anti-air Buk-M2 missiles (NATO codenamed SA-11) recently supplied by Russia. Short of time to master the advanced SA-11, the Syrian crews would have called on their Russian instructors to help fire it. DEBKAfile: Moscow and Damascus may have decided to stop the almost daily Turkish air force flights over the Syrian coast for spying on Russian arms deliveries through the Russian bases of Tartus and Latakia.
As you have stated above, that I'm sure this was not the first incursion by the TAF into the Syrian airspace, and I'm sure the Syrians have warned Turkey not to do it. But Turkey thinks they are a superpower so they gave the middle finger to Assad, Erdogan's long time friend. Well, looks like the last incursion was the one that broke the turkey's back and Assad gave the middle finger to his old friend Erdigan and shot the plane down. I'm sure this will be the last incursion into Syrian airspace by TAF.
Another interpretation of the insident is that maybe Turkey provoked the insident in order to force NATO to get involved (to protect a member state/Turkey) as it has been trying to do these past weeks.
First of all, Turkey is not a trusted member of NATO. Turkey proved that during the Libyan war. She is tolerated as long as she is useful and serves the interests of the west. When Turkey loses her usefulness to the west, she will be pushed aside like an old shoe.
Syria does not have Oil like Libya does, therefore NATO is not about to get involved, specially not when Russia and China are behind Syria. Besides, Syria did not attack Turkey outside her own borders, but instead in the boundaries of her own air/land/sea borders. Turkey wants to be seen as the regional superpower and wants to teach Assad a lesson, hence the tough talk from Erdogan for the last year or so, but no action, because she can't do so without NATO, but uses the NATO's "all for one and one for all" protection to push her weight around in the region all the same, except this time they got one of their war planes shot out of the sky and sending two of their pilots to death, just because they thought Syria would not dare to do such an act.
