Turkish military shoots down Syrian warplane

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Turkish premier congratulates military for the action, while Damascus condemns the ‘flagrant aggression’

 “A Syrian plane violated our airspace. Our F-16s took off and hit this plane. Why? Because if you violate my airspace, our slap after this will be hard.”

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that the Turkish air force shot down a Syrian aircraft for violating Turkish airspace, an action that Syria denounced as “unprecedented and unjustifiable”.

The incident happened on Sunday, with the plane crashing near the Syrian town of Kasab on the Turkish border after it was targeted by F16s.

During an election rally in the northwest of Turkey, Erdogan said, “A Syrian plane violated our airspace. Our F-16s took off and hit this plane. Why? Because if you violate my airspace, our slap after this will be hard.”

The Syrian state news agency SANA reported the foreign ministry as protesting against Turkish “interference” in the province of Latakia, which has witnessed heavy fighting in recent days.

In a statement, the foreign ministry said Turkey’s “blatant aggression against Syrian sovereignty in the Kasab border region over the past two days proves its implication in the events in Syria.”

The province includes President Bashar al-Assad’s family village.

According to a news agency, the anti-Assad monitoring group, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the plane had been striking areas in Latakia in pursuit of rebels.

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  1. Turkish govt is in alliance with US and saudi in this war on terror playing in shia controlled area and in latest scenario it is collaborating with Pakistan army to transfer arms and jiahdi to this land through Turkish airlines.So this might be done to trigger war in Syria for which Saudi is pouring huge money to Pakistan

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