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I wouldn't trust Putin further than I could throw him but I don't believe the Turkish interpretation of events for one moment either.

To my mind, Russia gave Turkey an opportunity to stir up some conflict between NATO country's and Russia to further Turkey's own ends wrt Syria.

Its all a dirty game and when "allies" are point scoring like America has toward Russia when there is no need, and they should be concentrating on furthering common goals, it reduces the chances of defeating IS.

There are too many big egos amongst the big players and Turkey will end up out of NATO and on its own if it continues down its present IS sympathiser path.