The difference is when Russia and the US do it they are basically saying we are here dont fuck with us and we wont fuck with you, and everyone in the area is flying the biggest flags with the fingers on the trigger waiting for the other to fuck around and find out. This actually happened in 2018 when the Wagner group tried assualting a US outpost in syria and got wiped off the earth.

Turkey is asking a NATO adversary for permission to use their controlled air space because the US (their NATO ally) would deny access to their controlled space to attack a quasi NATO ally (the Kurds).

Turkey is also in the middle of delaying Finland and Sweden from joining NATO for BS political reasons. Turkey is unfortunately a necessary evil for NATO for easy access to the middle east.

Yeah there is a big difference in those two things btw.

Ok tankie, Turkey wants to attack kurds who were the backbone of the counter-ISIS operation in Iraq and Syria. Turkey is necessary for Nato operations in the middle east. They know their position and use it to hold NATO hostage. They are not a counter Russian entity for NATO.