Turkey’s provocation

November 27, 2015 03:11 am | Updated 03:11 am IST

It seems that the world will have to pay a heavy price for Turkey’s ill-conceived act of aggression (“Dangerous provocation,” Nov.26). The only party that benefited from the downing of the Russian fighter plane by Turkish army is the Islamic State (IS). This tragic event has shifted the course of “fight against IS” to “fight amongst nations”. As Russia is not willing to reach any compromise with Turkey, a NATO member, there is a possibility of hostilities between the former Cold War blocs escalating once again. Turkey, just a few days back, hosted the G-20 summit where Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen with U.S. President Barack Obama discussing a joint strategy to tackle IS, a move that raised great optimism. However, now, the same Turkey has acted as a negative catalyst and brought back the two leaders to opposite fronts. Turkey should have informed the Russian command centre before taking such an extreme stop. The only way forward is for Ankara to apologise for this and work to sort out the relations with Moscow as soon as possible.

Shubham Goel,Hapur, Uttar Pradesh

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