Russia responded to the provocations by banning Russian tourists from visiting Turkey. The Turkish tourist resorts lost tens of billions of USD in revenue and many hundreds of thousands of Turks became jobless. This is how intelligent people respond to the provocations. Not like the Americans who send their tomahawks to blast kindergartens and hospitals.
Turkey military must face Russian military. Innocent Turkish people has nothing to do with the killing.
Physical wars can be quite expensive, in terms of money and manpower. The Russians were not interested in it, and therefore they resorted to indirect war in terms of sanctions and embargoes. And it worked in the end.
