Ojito que se está poniendo la cosa muy fea...
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/11/24/actualidad/1448352222_650621.html
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/11/24/actualidad/1448352222_650621.html
Putin said the plane was targeting terrorist targets in the Latakia province of Syria, many of whom came from Russia.
Russia noticed of the flow of oil from Syrian territory under the control of terrorists to Turkey, Putin said.
Apparently, IS now not only receives revenue from the smuggling of oil, but also has the protection of a nation’s military, Putin said. This may explain why the terrorist group is so bold in taking acts of terrorism across the world, he added.
The fact that Turkey did not try to contact Russia in the wake of the incident and rushed to call a NATO meeting instead is worrisome, Putin said. It appears that Turkey want NATO to serve the interests of IS, he added.
"Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our comrades opened fire into the air and they died in the air," Alpaslan Celik, a deputy commander in a Syrian Turkmen brigade said.
Syrian fighters fired at a Russian helicopter forcing it to make an emergency landing in a nearby government-held area in Syria's Latakia province on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
A Syrian insurgent group, recipient of U.S. Tow missiles, said its fighters hit the helicopter with an anti-tank missile.
A Saudi Arabian official has reportedly disclosed that the Sunni kingdom sent Syrian rebels a new batch of one of the most effective weapons for battling against the Assad regime this week.
BBC correspondent Frank Gardner tweeted that a Saudi official confirmed the delivery of 500 TOW antitank missiles to the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
The delivery of the TOW missiles — which have also been provided by the CIA — will increase the capabilities of the FSA against Syrian armor, and it would enable them to more effectively battle against Assad's recent military advances.
If the strike is confirmed, the TOW missile was most likely supplied through the same US and Turkey-backed logistics programme that has reportedly been supplying Alwiya al-Ashar.
The rebels' usage of these American-made TOW missiles has increased over 800 per cent since Russia began air strikes against them at the end of September, slowing regime offensives across the country by destroying dozens of tanks and other armoured vehicles.
Não me parece que a Rússia vá declarar guerra a Turquia por causa apenas disto, nem me parece que a Turquia tenha deliberadamente abatido um avião russo( não me parece que sejam suficientemente loucos para isso).
No entanto, começa a haver ali um barril de pólvora que, por vezes, pequenos incidentes sucessivos podem originar uma explosão incontrolável de violência além fronteiras.
The United States believes that the Russian jet shot down by Turkey on Tuesday was hit inside Syrian airspace after a brief incursion into Turkish airspace, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official said that assessment was based on detection of the heat signature of the jet.
While carrying out the attacks, Turkish officials said, two Russian strike fighters flew toward the Turkish border, getting dangerously close to crossing it. The pilots ignored 10 warnings over five minutes and both of them entered Turkey’s airspace for 17 seconds, the officials said.
Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudsky with the Russian Defense Ministry said in Moscow that Turkey made no effort to reach its pilots. But U.S. military officials confirmed they heard as many as 10 radio calls from the Turks to the Russians, and didn’t hear the Russian pilots respond to any of them.
So Wikileaks has apparently got hold of a statement written by Turkey, confirming Russian plane was in its airspace for only 17 seconds before it was attacked. Again it says it crashed once back on the Syrian side of the border. If true, it suggests the Russian SU-24 penetrated only a little more than a mile into Turkey.
Even if Turkey’s version of what happened on Tuesday is true, the response to alleged violation by Russia appears to be disproportionate and contradicting Ankara’s own position. In 2012, Turkey lost an F-3 Phantom warplane to a Syrian attack after it strayed into Syrian territory.
“A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was then-Turkish prime minister, told BBC at the time as he expressed rage over the downing of the plane.
Turkish claims that the downed Russian Su-24 jet “violated” its airspace have sparked outrage among Greeks, who took to social media to say it is a clear-cut case of double standards as Turkish jets breached Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone.
A Rússia terá ignorado os apelos com vista ao desanuviar da tensão com a Turquia depois de ontem, alegadamente, ter bombardeado um comboio humanitário turco em Azaz, uma cidade síria junto à fronteira com a Turquia.
A informação avançada ao final desta quarta-feira pela agência noticiosa estatal turca, Anadolu, e citada pelo New York Times, dá conta de que um comboio humanitário turco foi atingido em Azaz, provocando pelo menos sete mortos e 10 feridos. Apesar de não ser seguro afirmar que este ataque - a uma caravana humanitária dirigida a apoiar civis sírios afectados pela guerra civil que se arrasta no país desde 2011 - foi conduzido pelas forças russas, o Observatório Sírio para os Direitos Humanos reportou grande actividade da força aérea russa, junto a Azaz, ao longo do dia de quarta-feira.