I am again playing catch up here... I spent the last two days doing a lot of personal business and only last night finally spent more time surfing the Internet....One thing that caught my eye the last few days were the reports from both the Jew spew media and of course so many online alternative media and real truth seeker sites, where supposedly that crooked and most criminal President of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, gave the Russian Federation an "apology" for his nation's downing of that Russian Su24 fighter aircraft over northern Syria back in the spring... Many have been saying that this has been a move by Turkey towards Russia due to the possible failing of the entire European Union.... I did at first believe that there was some "sincerity" coming from the Turks for their blatant act of aggression, but being the pessimist that I am I thought there was much more to this story than what we are being told...Now comes a report from Press Tv, through the Aletho News website, at www.alethonews.wordpress.com, that states that there was indeed NO apology at all for Turkey's downing of that aircraft, only 'regret'......Here is that article, entitled: "Turkey Denies Apology To Russia Over Downed Jet" for everyone to read for themselves, and I do have my usual thoughts and comments to follow:
Turkey denies apology to Russia over downed jet
Press TV – June 28, 2016
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Turkey has only expressed regrets to Russia over a downed jet in Syria, denying reports of an apology.Yidirim also reversed an earlier offer of compensation to Russia for shooting down one of Moscow’s military jets in November, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.“Compensating Russia is not on the table, we have only expressed our regrets,” CNN-Turk cited him as saying, hours after he said Ankara was ready to offer compensation for the incident.The Kremlin said on Monday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had apologized to Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a letter.Erdogan’s spokesman confirmed the letter, but said the Turkish president had only expressed regret and asked the family of the pilot killed after the downing to “excuse us.”The denial came just as the Kremlin said on Tuesday that President Putin will hold a phone conversation with Erdogan on Wednesday.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, told a conference call with journalists that Russia did not expect strained relations with Turkey would mend in a few days.Putin has said an apology from Erdogan is the condition for repairing relations between the two countries, which were shattered when the Russian jet was shot down by Turkey at the Syrian border.Ankara said it shot down the plane because it entered Turkish airspace, an allegation Moscow denies. The Russian pilot ejected from the plane but was killed by gunfire from militants on the ground in Syria as he parachuted down to earth.Yildirim also told reporters in parliament that legal proceedings were underway against an individual allegedly responsible for the killing of the Russian pilot.Moscow, which imposed economic sanctions on Ankara over the downed plane, had said that apart from official apologies it also wanted Turkey to pay compensation for the incident.After writing to Putin to voice his regret over the incident, Erdogan said he now believed that Ankara would normalize relations with Moscow “rapidly” but the Kremlin advised caution on Tuesday.“One should not think it possible to normalize everything within a few days, but work in this direction will continue,” Peskov said.NTS Notes: I knew that there was something to those original "apology" reports that did not make sense... Which also leads to much speculation as to what was exactly stated in that "letter" that was sent from Erdogan to Putin? To "regret" is absolutely NOT an apology!Turkey is absolutely under the firm grip of the US/Israel/NATO criminal cabal which absolutely wants to expand the war in Syria even with direct intervention from Turkey if necessary...Therefore the idea that Turkey would now try to make peace with the Russian Federation does not make sense....Yes, so many blogs and sites did prematurely jump on the idea that Turkey would actually "apologize" to Russia for their blatant act of aggression, but until the Turks can actually free themselves from the criminal cabal that controls their nation, that will never happen.... And Turkey will remain in the line of fire if and when the criminal cabal expands their illegal wars in the Middle East as a result....More to comeNTS