Turkey Shoots Down A Syrian Warplane
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Mar. 23, 2014
Turkish anti-aircraft fire shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday as it bombed rebels fighting to seize control of a border post in northwestern Syria.
“Turkish air defences targeted a Syrian fighter bomber as it struck areas of the northern province of Latakia. The plane caught fire and crashed in Syrian territory,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
“A Syrian plane violated our airspace,” Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told an election rally of his supporters in northwest Turkey soon after. “Our F-16s took off and hit this plane. Why? Because if you violate my airspace, our slap after this will be hard.”
There was no immediate confirmation of the report from Syria, but the foreign ministry in Damascus issued a protest over Turkish “interference” in the Kasab region of Latakia.
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