Quote: "Unless Turkey can sell the original violation of airspace by an armed Russian fighter as an "attack" "
17 seconds and just over a mile on a very tiny stretch of airspace at high speed and high altitude: Turkish aviation and PM knew this was not a hostile incursion but possibly human error during real operations close to border, it can happen and it does happen. 17 seconds is nothing.
Totally unnecessary.
Nobody can blame the Russians for 17 seconds. At high speed this means nothing, it was probably involuntarily and one Russian plane immediately went back in fact.
This was clearly not a Russian air-attack on Turkey, massive mistake made by the Turkish in my opinion.
NATO will have to agree with Putin this time.
There have been other cases of incursions that went well beyond 1 mile and beyond the 17 seconds and planes have not been shot down unless the intruder was at war with the shooter...maybe Turkey considers itself at war with Russia hence the unprecedented reaction of today
