Turkey says its patience with Russia 'has a limit'

[88m3]

Turkey says its patience with Russia 'has a limit'
Foreign minister says Moscow "exaggerated" its reaction in a naval incident by firing warning shots at a fishing vessel.

14 Dec 2015 18:03 GMT | Turkey, Russia, Syria, Europe, ISIL

• fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea on Sunday to avoid a collision and summoned the Turkish military attache in Moscow over the incident.
  
  "Ours was only a fishing boat. It seems to me that the reaction of the Russian naval ship was exaggerated," Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera in an interview.
  The incident is likely to heighten tensions between the two nations, which are at odds over Syria and Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet last month.
  
  "Russia and Turkey certainly have to re-establish the relations of trust that we have always had, but our patience has a limit," the Turkish foreign minister said.
  
  
  
  Cavusoglu said Russia had already "put itself in a ridiculous position" with accusations by President Vladimir Putin that Turkey had shot down the jet to protect oil supplies from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
  
  "No one believed it," he said.
  
  He also criticised Russia's military intervention in Syria, saying it was aimed at propping up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, not combating ISIL.
  
  "Unfortunately Russia is not in Syria to fight terrorists," he said, adding only eight percent of its air strikes had been aimed at ISIL, while 92 percent were against other groups hostile to Assad.
  
  Cavusoglu also said air strikes were not sufficient to defeat ISIL and soldiers on the ground were necessary, according to the interview.
  
  
  
• Turkey says its patience with Russia 'has a limit'

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i think that Turkey is the perfect stick to poke Russia with.
Turkey is a part of NATO, very close to Russia and would be a superb jump off point for America in every sense.

let the fukkery flow.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

i think that Turkey is the perfect stick to poke Russia with.
Turkey is a part of NATO, very close to Russia and would be a superb jump off point for America in every sense.

let the fukkery flow.

I think this is what the West has wanted since NATO was created...turns out that the brown boys from the bosphorus are the only ones about that Treaty life going back to WW1

 

[Lifer11]

I think this is what the West has wanted since NATO was created...turns out that the brown boys from the bosphorus are the only ones about that Treaty life going back to WW1

This is another attempt at a proxy war by the US. Turkey wouldn't be anywhere near this brazen without every assurance from the US that if Russia comes back at them full force they'll have all the US support, military or otherwise, they need.

Russia called America's bluff and made them look bad in Syria, while blatantly going against America's interests over there, and they've now ramped up their efforts to make Russia look like the bad guy on the world stage, which they are failing at miserably. What their intended end game is I have no idea, but it certainly can't be good for any of the citizens of the world.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is another attempt at a proxy war by the US. Turkey wouldn't be anywhere near this brazen without every assurance from the US that if Russia comes back at them full force they'll have all the US support, military or otherwise, they need.

Russia called America's bluff and made them look bad in Syria, while blatantly going against America's interests over there, and they've now ramped up their efforts to make Russia look like the bad guy on the world stage. What their intended end game is I have no idea, but it certainly can't be good for any of the citizens of the world.

There is no end game. This is the Great Game.

 

[Lifer11]

There is no end game. This is the Great Game.

In the big scheme of things you're right, but aside from huge profits made by the military industrial complex, America has many goals for that region, controlling the oil in the Middle East is the main one (which continues to fuel The Great Game), but I'm really starting to think the main agenda is World War 3. I'm just not sure if the big political power players of the US/NATO and Russia/China have basically agreed to it and this is all just political theater to get the general public to accept it, or if there is true hostility and differing of political philosophies between them to the extent it can't be settled diplomatically.

 

[FAH1223]

Lol at patience being tested

They shot down the plane...

The Russians flew over Israeli airspace and Israel escorted them out, highlighted to troll the Turks

 

[ill]

Lol at patience being tested

They shot down the plane...

The Russians flew over Israeli airspace and Israel escorted them out, highlighted to troll the Turks

Israel is gonna lean towards mother Russia very soon

 

[Red Shield]

In the big scheme of things you're right, but aside from huge profits made by the military industrial complex, America has many goals for that region, controlling the oil in the Middle East is the main one (which continues to fuel The Great Game), but I'm really starting to think the main agenda is World War 3. I'm just not sure if the big political power players of the US/NATO and Russia/China have basically agreed to it and this is all just political theater to get the general public to accept it , or if there is true hostility and differing of political philosophies between them to the extent it can't be settled diplomatically.

 

[88m3]

I guess it's only okay when Turkey doesn't protect it's borders. You guys are funny.

 

[Strapped]

Fux both of those dummies

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Israel is gonna lean towards mother Russia very soon

Is this before or after they get expelled...again...