Pepe Escobar, Al Jazeera, July 6, 2012 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has yet to understand the new deal struck between Russia and the US. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan never saw it coming. He knew he was in trouble when the Pentagon leaked that the Turkish Phantom RF-4E shot down last week by Syrian anti-aircraft artillery happened off the Syrian coastline, directly contradicting Erdogan's account, who claimed it happened in international air space. And it got worse; Moscow, via Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, offered "objective radar data" as proof. ... Why