The US president's rush to defend Turkey is beyond ridiculous, even taking into account that Turkey is part of NATO. Turkish airplanes breach the Greek airspace over the Aegean sea multiple times every day (Turkey considers parts of the aegean disputed despite international treaties). Never has an incident happened, despite dogfights having been happening for decades. By this logic there would not be any turkish pilots alive by now.

Turkey's military often likes to interfere in turkish politics, and this was probably caused by some hothead militant. I doubt turkey has at this stage anything to gain from confrontation with Russia.