They did wait for him to (probably inadvertently) fly for a few minutes over sovereign Turkish air space. They wouldn't have dared if he had stayed entirely on

They did wait for him to (probably inadvertently) fly for a few minutes over sovereign Turkish air space. They wouldn't have dared if he had stayed entirely on the Syrian side. More interesting is that just a couple of years later all is forgotten and Russia is selling Turkey its most advanced S-400 air defense system, thus precipitating a diplomatic crisis with the US. Middle Eastern politics: never a dull moment.