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The view from Turkey: Turkey has right to defend territory, air space, Obama says
[Hurriyet] Ankara and Moscow must ease tensions, said U.S. President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
, while commenting on the downing of a Russian fighter jet by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, as he higlighted that Turkey has a right to protect its borders.

"Turkey, like any other country, has a right to defend its territory and its air space," Obama said during a joint presser with French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
"It's very important right now for us to make sure that both the Russians and the Turks are talking to each other to find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation," Obama said.

He said downing of the Russian plane points to an "ongoing problem with Russian operations near the Turkish border."
It sounds like our beloved president doesn't like Russia anymore.
The U.S. president said he expected to be in communication with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
 in the next several days.
Not a priority to the White House, then?
Obama also said that Russian strikes against moderate opposition there only serve to bolster Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's government.

He also said the United States and La Belle France will stand united to fight the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hard boyz following the Nov. 13 attacks in Gay Paree, pledging to step up efforts to combat terrorism alongside its European partners.

"As Americans, we stand by our friends in good times and in bad, no matter what," Obama said.

Downed Russian jet violated Turkish air space: NATO

[Hurriyet] NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
 Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said Turkish information over downed Russian jet's air space violation was correct contrary to the Russian claims.

"The allied assessments that we have are consistent with the information we have from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
," the NATO chief said after an emergency meeting in Brussels on Nov. 24.

"We stand in solidarity with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey, support its territorial integrity," Stoltenberg said.

Russian officials had said earlier in the day that the jet did not violate the Turkish space and the jet was hit on the Syrian side of the border.

There has been no direct contact between Russia and NATO so far, he said, adding that Ankara and Moscow have already contacted.

He called for more contact.

The situation is serious and tensions should be eased, he said, adding that measures should be taken to prevent any repetition of such an incident.

"The common enemy is ISIL," he said, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, adding that Russia should be guided by that.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-25
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