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| Military Plane Shot Down Near Syria Border, Turkey Says | |
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| ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets shot down a military plane close to the border with Syria on Tuesday after it violated Turkey’s airspace, the military said. | |
| The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that one of its jets, a Sukhoi SU-24, had crashed in Syria but said it had been downed “presumably as a result of shelling from the ground,” according to the Russian news agency Interfax. | |
| The discrepancy between the two accounts could not immediately be explained. | |
| Interfax cited the Russian ministry as saying that early information indicated that the pilots had ejected. | |
| “The plane stayed exclusively above the territory of Syria throughout the entire flight,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to Interfax. | |
| The Turkish military said that a plane had been shot down by its own fighters. | |
| “Two Turkish F-16 jets on patrol duty along the border were involved in the downing of the warplane, whose origin was unknown,” the Turkish military said in a statement. | “Two Turkish F-16 jets on patrol duty along the border were involved in the downing of the warplane, whose origin was unknown,” the Turkish military said in a statement. |
| Television footage shown on the privately owned Turkish channel Haberturk showed a warplane exploding in the air and tumbling down in flames in a wooded area, identified by the broadcaster as a region known to Turks as the Turkmen Mountains in northern Syria. | Television footage shown on the privately owned Turkish channel Haberturk showed a warplane exploding in the air and tumbling down in flames in a wooded area, identified by the broadcaster as a region known to Turks as the Turkmen Mountains in northern Syria. |
| Another video published by the semiofficial news service Anadolu Agency showed two figures parachuting out of the aircraft. | Another video published by the semiofficial news service Anadolu Agency showed two figures parachuting out of the aircraft. |
| The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has ordered the Foreign Ministry to consult with NATO and the United Nations over the episode, the prime minister’s office said in a statement, without providing more details. | The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has ordered the Foreign Ministry to consult with NATO and the United Nations over the episode, the prime minister’s office said in a statement, without providing more details. |
| Last week, Turkey summoned the Russian ambassador, Andrei Karlov, to discuss Ankara’s concerns over the bombing of Turkmen villages in northern Syria and called for an immediate end to the Russian military operation close to the Turkish border, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement. | |
| “It was stressed that the Russian side’s actions were not a fight against terror, but they bombed civilian Turkmen villages and this could lead to serious consequences,” the statement said. | |
| Ankara has long sought the protection of Turkmens, who are of Turkish descent, in Syria. |