Originally Posted by RYFQB
Hardly a NATO spokesperson, but I wouldn't think the Secretary General's home country put a dissenter on the screen either.
The point you made is genuine, and Turkey's response was "extreme" to the slight invasion of their [territorial] airspace which was very minor. The aircraft concerned transgressed by about 1.5NM but at no time could this be deemed as aggressive. The aircraft entered from the east and departed to the west in less than 30 seconds, i.e. a small miscalculation in the scale of things.
The Russian Federation would also be wise to accept that right and might are not necessarily the best of bed-fellows.