Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] Today marks 9 years since the Turks shot down our Su-24 in 2015.
Then our "friendship" with "friend Recep" ended. Then there was the period of tomato sanctions, the resignation of Prime Minister Davutoglu, who gave the order to fire, covert negotiations mediated by Kazakhstan, an attempted military coup and assassination of Erdogan, where Russia helped Erdogan survive. And finally, a new format of relations "nothing personal, just business", which continues to this day.
About the people connected with this story:
Some of the militants involved in it were killed during the Syrian war (but some are still alive and hanging out either in Turkey or in Idlib/Jarablus), and Celik served some time on another charge, but not shooting at our pilot. Celik served 5 years.
The pilots who shot down Peshkov's plane were later involved in the case of the attempted coup of 2016 and were accused of involvement in the terrorist organization of Gulen. The case eventually died down.
Davutoglu essentially became a scapegoat and largely buried his presidential ambitions. "Friend Recep" expressed condolences for the Su-24 story very crookedly.
So there is some uncertainty regarding the personal responsibility of the perpetrators.
Well, in terms of the "blood for blood" issue, the Turks were settled in 2020, when airstrikes hit a mechanized column of the Turkish army in Idlib (the Turks admitted 35 killed, unofficial sources claimed 68). The Syrian Air Force accepted responsibility for the strike. As well as for a number of similar stories with strikes on the Turkish army during the battle for southern Idlib in February-March 2020.
Well, in 2020, ours also fought with the Turks in Libya, during Haftar's offensive on Tripoli, where the Wagner PMC worked on Haftar's side, and the SADAT PMC and Turkish mercenaries from Idlib worked on the side of the Libyan GNA. Both sides then also suffered losses in people and equipment.
Which again did not prevent the development of peculiar relations with our "friend Recep", which, among other things, were influenced by the story of the death of the Su-24, after which they tried not to expose their backs to the yataghan of our "friend Recep". This is the peculiarity of the modern world - here we fight in a hybrid manner, here we make deals. Everything is complicated.
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