Turkish soldiers training Iraqi troops near Mosul: sources

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I think I over reacted to his article.

In my interpretation of his article, I saw him suggesting that Russia's intervention in Syria with their aggressive actions in bombing the oil tanker transports and success in destroying some of the Isis Operations made Turkey and NATO very uncomfortable.

When Russia revealed the Turkish Smuggling Operations and put out their own surveillance videos of the shooting down of the Russian fighter jet (concluding that Turkey intentionally shot it down) this was an affront to NATO. The decision was made by the NATO brass that there needed to be a show of solidarity by the allies to confront what was seen as Russia as assuming too much international attention and control in Syria and needed to smacked down for defying a NATO member.

As you point out, though. Its probably more about stemming the Refugee crisis that Germany and France are involved in the bombings and nothing much to do with the Turkey/Russia dispute.