I wonder if Iran will join Russia in teaching turkey a lesson? Im sure the Russians are keeping tabs, and will be giving some new toys to the PKK.. But im not sure if Iran would follow. Since it has a strict "no pissing in your own pool" policy when it comes to neighbour instability. time will tell, But the Turks are crossing lines.
Regardless though, Turkey should expect some nasty surprised going forward... Especially their illegal occupying troops/terrorists in northern syria. Russia has alot of tools in its hands to make the turks bleed. Maybe Erdogan might get on his knees again and apologize again publicly?
Again? Ahaha... That much wank is not good. Also, these people, who are more tsarist than tsar's himself, always make me laugh.
Technically, Turkey is at least as neutral as Iran is. We refuse to participate in any form of sanctions. (We also opposed the embargoes against Iran as best we could, and in some cases, we created bilateral private commercial channels) We closed the Black Sea to NATO ships, Although we are NATO member. We refuse to close our airspace to Russia. Russia has tens of billions of dollars worth of fixed investments in Turkey. All of them continue to be supported by the state. We continue to buy and market Russian gas.
In fact, Turkey has so far been the only country that has brought two countries together in a meeting. Turkey's efforts are appreciated by both sides. Although some losers in a corner are sad about it...
If Russia defends the legitimacy of the invasion of Ukraine, on what grounds can it defend the unlawfulness of the Turkish buffer zone? Moreover, we do not claim sovereignty over these lands, while Russia is annexing the regions one by one. Even in Syria, all underground resources were confiscated for 50 years thanks to the puppet regime. Some parts of Tartus is unofficial Russian land.
Russia has been giving weapons to the PKK for 40 years. Pkk/kck have offices in Moscow. And currently, tel rifat and manbij are under the auspices of Russia. PKK shot down the Turkish helicopter with Russian-sold MANPADS. Which of these did we retaliate for, we did not close the dialogue channel even when 32 of our soldiers were killed by a cowardly attack by a Russian bomber.
There are no Turkish soldiers in Ukraine. There are no Turkish weapons in Ukraine, also. Ukraine is a solution partner to Turkey in some critical areas and in return, TR provides some UAV technologies to them. Thats all. If Russia want some asistance, Turkish companies could also bring some offers to them.