An attempt at a false flag? Remember who is buddies with the Turks...BHO.
BHO is thankfully out of power and irrelevant. He can no longer influence foreign policy anymore than you and I can. All he can do is shoot off his stupid mouth and prove what an idiot he is now that he no longer has speech writers or a teleprompter to tell him what to say.
Erdogan's been waiting for an opportunity. If he thinks he can push across the Syrian border and not get a forceful response (publicly or otherwise) from PDJT he's as wrong as can be.
NAh....this is Erdogan taking advantage as he thinks NATO will protect his efforts.