If it was during the cold war, Turkey shooting down a Russian jet would be off the scale in the diplomatic stakes. As it is, shooting one down over Turkey (or was it?) whilst engaging in bombing 'rebels' in Syria is probably not going to result in more than a semi-major spat. At least we hope so.
There's some noise over the The Soaraway Sun's use of dodgy statistics to portray 1 in 5 Muslims as supporting jihadists, and rightly so (the noise, not the support). Misuse of statistics is a daily fact of life for newspapers, and I expect Sun is one of the worst just to make headline grabbing claims.
It's a pity the 'I didn't actually really mean that...' that will inevitably have to follow will be tucked away amongst the adverts on page 15. ..or maybe Sun readers believe it and don't complain.
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