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YRU4IT
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YRU4IT asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 5 years ago

Why did Turkey shoot down Russia's jet that was bombing ISIS' convoys?

Update:

Russia has been bombing oil convoys from ISIS controlled oil fields going to Turkey. Turkey is also Sunni!!!

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago
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    Turkey loves ISIS oil but dislikes Greece. Go figure.

  • 5 years ago

    All of those countries are on high alert now, people are given orders to shoot down anything that enters their airspace, no one can ever know if a war is to be started, and ISIS is just a "show", doubt it though ISIS are *****, but it's a logical answer none the less.

  • Kini
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The U.S. may be using Turkey to draw NATO into a war against Russia because if Russia responds with an attack on Turkey that could happen. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail (Hollande and Putin) and stop the U.S. from starting another war.

  • 5 years ago

    That bomber wasn't anywhere near ISIS territory. It was more likely bombing Turkmen, Syrian ethnic Turks who are fighting Assad.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Russia didn't ask permission to fly over turkey.

  • 5 years ago

    ISIS isn't present at that border area, but Turkmen were there, Erdogan said. Anyone who bombs that area attacks "our brothers and sisters -- Turkmen," Erdogan said in Ankara. Turkmen are a Turkic-speaking, traditionally nomadic people who live primarily in Central Asia, but a small minority of them can be found in the Middle East, primarily in northern Iraq, Iran and Turkey.

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/middleeast/warplane-...

    I also read somewhere the people in that area are fighting Assad.

  • 5 years ago

    It's wasn't. It was in Turkish airspace attacking Turkishmen rebels.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The Russian aircraft wandered into Turkish territory after maiking a bombing run. The Turks have had an obsession about Russians violating their territory for 200 years now, so this is nothing new.

  • 5 years ago

    Turkey does not buy oil from Daesh, but you genocidal manical dictator ally, Assad, buys it. Russia hits tens of times more Syrian oppositional groups than they hit Daesh. Russians are genocidal maniacs, like how they supported the genocide in Bosnia, they support the one in Syria. You are hitting anybody opposing Assad, including civilians, but not the terrorists.

    Why did Russia condemn France hitting the oil infrastructures under the control of Daesh? Because Assad buys oil from Daesh.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Russia sucks

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