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asli aydintasbas
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Fellow at Brookings Institution @BrookingsFP, formerly senior fellow @ecfr and Global Opinions columnist at the Washington Post. Views my own!
Sep 24, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Lots of delayed praise for Turkey on how it responded to Russian airspace violations on its Syrian border a decade ago. And yes, Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft which had violated its airspace in 2015. But let's remember a few facts: (1)

NATO can draw a red line with Putin. Turkey showed how. wapo.st/4gNnZP6 1. NATO hardly stood by Turkey beyond rhetoric at the time, calling for restraint. The message was NATO does not want further confrontation. Patriots were pulled back from Turkey
2. Economic and political price was BIG. Russia imposed sanctions and rallied behind the PKK