Turkey’s NATO allies have by and large stood by Ankara in the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian Su-24 bomber this past Tuesday. As President Obama has argued, every country has the right to defend itself. The Turks and the Russians have been on opposing sides of the Syrian civil war, with Moscow intervening to bolster the fragile regime of strongman Bashar al-Assad and Ankara almost from the beginning supporting a slew of armed opposition groups wanting to overthrow Assad.The differences over Syria notwithstanding, however, there are a number of open questions about this story. The first is the …read more
Source: The American Interest
