Turkish-Russian relations are in the gutter since the downing of that attack jet,yet it is not exactly a relationship in which one party can just ignore the other. Both economies are intertwined and Russia has to pass through Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait in order to access the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. Turkey may gain reminded Russia of this very recently , but it still does not explain why Russian sailors were donning shoulder-fired surface-air-missiles nowadays during one of Russias amphibious ship’s transits.
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Source: gawker.com