What was Erdoğan thinking? One has to assume that the deliberate downing of a Russian bomber by Turkish fighter jets was no accident, that it was ordered from the top. Otherwise, we would have heard very audible diplomatic apologies from the Turkish side to the Kremlin. Nor would Putin have openly called it a “stab in the back.”
This little knot of what-didn’t-happen is revealing in itself. Presumably the Turks could have pretended the whole thing was an accident while assuming that Putin got the message. Instead Ankara chose to make today’s incident a public rebuke and humiliation for the Kremlin, …read more
Source: European Voice
