Turkey and Russia in trade words over downed jet

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Following the downing of a Russian war plane by the turkish military, controversies have continued to trail the actions and decisions behind the move as both Russia, Turkey and their respective allies continues to argue on who was right or wrong.

The Russian sukhio-su24 war plane was shot down near the Turkey-Syrian border as the turkish official claims it violated their airspace rules.

Consequently, in a swift reaction to this, the Russian president vladimir putin has describe this act as been "a stab in the back"

According to putin "Today's loss is linked to a stab in the back delivered to us by accomplices of terrorists. I cannot qualify what happened today as anything else," a visibly angry Putin said in televised comments.

 "Our plane was shot down over the territory of Syria by an air-to-air missile from a Turkish F-16 jet. It fell in Syrian territory four kilometres from the border with Turkey. Our pilots and our plane did not in any way threaten Turkey."

 Putin who also critised the action of Turkey for contacting NATO instead of Russia during the incident prior to establishing contact with moscow at first stage

 "Instead of immediately establishing contacts with us, as far as we know Turkey turned to its NATO partners to discuss this incident - as if we had hit their plane and not the other way around," he said.

 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu however defends their action by saying turkey have the right to act against anybody viola ting its territorial border line rules.

 "Everyone must know that it is our international right and national duty to take any measure against whoever violate our air or land borders," Davutoglu said in Ankara.
"Turkey will not hesitate to take all steps to protect the country's security."
However, in a related development the Russian government  have indeed warned it citizen to stay of turkey as it is considered unsafe as they have subsequently deployed a warship to the coastline near where the plane crashed.
Also, it has suspended it planned military cooperation with Turkey while it's foreign affairs Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancelled a planned trip to Turkey on Wednesday.

Putin: Turkey's downing of jet a 'stab in the back
Meanwhile, NATO had advised both nations to sheath their sword even though it (NATO) has given has their solidarity to turkey who happened to be a member. In a statement by the alliance secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg said, "We stand in solidarity with Turkey and support the territorial integrity of our NATO ally."
Also, fellow NATO united states have also backed Turkey's claim of protecting it's territorial line. 
According to president Obama "This points to an ongoing problem with the Russian operations in the sense that they are operating very close to a Turkish border and they are going after moderate opposition that are supported by not only Turkey but a wide range of countries".
Meanwhile, in a reprisal attack, the Syrian government have given her backing to ally Russian saying that Turkey have "committed a gross violation of the Syrian sovereignty" a military official told the state SANA news agency.
"The desperate acts of aggression will only increase our determination to continue the war against the terrorist organisations with the support and help of Syria's friends, mainly Russia," the official said
The plane crashed in Syrian territory in Latakia's Yamadi village.
Read More: http://www.aljazeera.com/

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