Pilots were shot by Turkmen while descending in their chutes. The video is everywhere at this point. Putin has to do something to appease the home crowd - which is only mildly terrifying.

Say what you want but shooting at somebody on a

Kurds are only real land fighing power fighing with ISIL. Turks bomb them.

While I agree a violation of airspace in principal warrants warnings followed by shootdown, I’m not sure that was the motivation of the Turks here. That would normally be the response if the aircraft was from a nation actively hostile or at war with Turkey, which is not the case here. The Turks have been playing a…

Was watching such things back when no one even heard of isis, and Syrian army was fighting “peaceful demonstrators”.

I highly doubt that you would uphold that right for say, Pakistan, if it had shot down the unauthorized helicopters who entered Pakistan to shoot down bin Laden.

Now Turkey has pulled NATO in to a bad situation, as a part of the IS sponsor’s agenda, the only way to split Russia -France coalition against IS. Turkey has played this dirty trick, and hope NATO is wise enough to come out of this trap, and leave Turkey alone under the sword of Damocles due to their immature action.…

We'll have to wait for the dash-cam video before drawing any conclusions.

U got it all backwards, boy! Russianese peoplyet got captured by Islamist pigs he’s been murdering with totally not random, discriminate bombing. Same Islamist pigs who would cut your head off if they ever got their hands on you. Same Islamist pigs who Turkey supports. Just awesome!

Not surprised at all.

Turkey runs with the NATO hare but its ruling party hunts with the Islamist hounds.

Turkey and Erdogan have their own agenda and it is an Islamist one. They start fearing for their ISIL friends...

Why is there a picture of swimmers accompanying a story about the diving coach?

PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!

me too. gonna judge him good. got big-time opinions about this one

Poor guy can’t even leave the country and catch a break.

Of the 83 people watching this game 83 of them can’t reach their remote.

I feel 7o 7orry for thi7 guy. How bad mu7t you 7uck to be replaced by Blaine Gabbert?

Suspected gun shots? Alleged? Save those words for the court house guys. They were fucking gun shots.