“If we are looking from all angles, a quite serious incident has occurred. This is truly an unprecedented incident. If earlier Turkey, in a mediated way or not so actively, displaying itself as a military force against Russia prior to the North Caucasus incident, starting form the last decades of the last century until recent years, today, the military opposing sides seem to be clear with this one action,” said the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, in an interview with Aravot.am, referring to the downing of the Russian Su-24 aircraft by Turkey today.
In his opinion, this is a hostile act and shows that there are opponents in both sides. “In this case, one unit of the Russian Air Force is destroyed by the Turkish side. It was preceded by Erdoğan’s statement that it will down any object. After this incident, they continued to claim that they will keep downing. In other words, Turkey admits that they have committed a hostile act against the Russian military force.”
According to Mr. Demoyan, Turkey made a dramatic escalation, which is proved by the direct involvement of the Turkish ruling government both in sponsoring the “Islamic state” terrorists group, supplying them and receiving profit from this structure. “This is already definite. Of course, it is surprising that the Russian side has responded to this with restraint. It’s true, clear assessments were made because with this action, Turkey obviously showed that it is on the side of the terrorists.”
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