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Downing the plane in international waters was stressed despite evidence proving otherwise.
It quoted Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal saying:
"It was an act of war. They shot down a plane over international waters, and this is unacceptable. (Turkey) reserves the right to respond."
According to Brookings Doha Center director Salman Shaikh:
"....Syria has now presented NATO with a pretext for involvement that could potentially bypass the United Nation."
"Assad has made a very big mistake. He's shown the very real dangers of this regime to its neighborhood."
Former US Turkish ambassador Ross Wilson said downing the plane "further escalat(es) tensions (and) rais(es) the stakes for Turkish leaders who have heretofore limited themselves to diplomatic efforts and mostly quiet support for Syrian refugees and opposition leaders."
Ross, in fact, knows Turkey runs point for Washington's war on Syria. It supplies weapons and training.
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