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The Grand Turk
Turkey tightens border control
2015-11-26
[Hurriyet] The Turkish Air Force has increased the number of warplanes patrolling the Turkish-Syrian border after the downing of a Russian jet fighter by a Turkish F-16 on Nov. 24, while Moscow fortified its military presence in Syria with additional missiles.

The intensification of the aerial protection of Turkish airspace was announced by a routine daily statement of the Chief of General Staff that declared the Turkish-Syrian border was now being patrolled by a record number of 18 F-16s.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has always patrolled its airspace with F-16s, but the number of warplanes on duty was no more than 12, even in early October when Russian jetfighters first violated Turkish airspace.

Turkey also sent 10 tanks to the southeastern province of Gaziantep early on Nov. 25, which will be deployed to the border, sources said.

An additional howitzer was also deployed to Hatay's town of Yayladagi, close to where the Russian jet was shot down.

The move follows Russia's statement that it would continue its military operations near the Turkish border and deploy high-tech air defense systems to Syrian bases.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
ordered the deployment of state-of-the art air defense missile systems to a Russian air base in Syria on Nov. 25.

The S-400 missile systems, which will be sent to the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, just about 50 kilometers south of the border with Turkey, are capable of targeting Turkish jets.
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