Russia's diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don is escorted by a Turkish Navy Coast Guard boat as it sets sail in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, December 13, 2015.
REUTERS/MURAD SEZER
Reuters: Turkey says its patience with Russia 'has a limit': newspaper
Turkey's foreign minister said Ankara's patience with Russia "has a limit" after Moscow's "exaggerated" reaction to a weekend naval incident between the two countries, an Italian newspaper reported on Monday.
A Russian destroyer fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean on Sunday to avoid a collision and summoned the Turkish military attache over the incident..
"Ours was only a fishing boat, it seems to me that the reaction of the Russian naval ship was exaggerated," Mevlut Cavusoglu told Italian daily Corriere della Sera in an interview.
"Russia and Turkey certainly have to re-establish the relations of trust that we have always had, but our patience has a limit," Cavusoglu said.
Update #1: Turkey warns its patience with Russia 'has a limit' after Putin warship fired warning shots at fishing vessel (Daily Mail)
Update #2: Analysis: That other war in the Middle East — the Russia-Turkey standoff (CBC)
WNU Editor: Both sides lost patience with each other a long time ago. The difference is that some in the media have finally caught up to what is happening .... albeit many are accepting the Turkish position/explanation for why these tensions are so high.
Hat Tip to RRH for the CBC link.
1 comment:
Turkey forgets the purpose of the Crimean War.
" The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of the United Kingdom and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
Side Note:
Napolean III had a better record than Obama. At least Napolean III won battles on Italy before he lost at Sedan. That Obama could say he won. Certainly, he did not win in Libya.
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