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Turkey: Jet 'downed by Syria in international airspace'
Turkey's foreign minister has said the fighter jet shot down by Syrian air defence forces on Friday was in international airspace when it was hit.
Ahmet Davutoglu said the unarmed plane was not on a secret mission related to Syria, but had mistakenly entered Syrian airspace before the incident. Syria maintains that it engaged the aircraft in its airspace "according to the laws that govern such situations". The Turkish and Syrian navies are still searching for the two crew members.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting the leaders of the three other parties in parliament to discuss how to respond.
Turkey had also called a meeting of Nato member states on Tuesday.
BBC
With heated talk of foreign military intervention in Syria rising, it makes sense to take time for a calm comparison of the forces arrayed against one another in the Middle East. After all, the process of determining the future of the country is drawing interest from numerous, heavily armed powers, both within the region and without.
Before the opening of any hostilities against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's regime, we would likely see the United Nations withdraw its 300 observers from the country, Russia's possible removal of its marines and three ships from the port of Tartus, and large-scale force movements in Iraq, Turkey, and the Mediterranean Sea -- none of which has occurred so far.
Solid logic Istanbul....... I think we should also parade in to North Korea right away! Don't you? Screw it, let's also just waltz on in to Sudan, Zimbabwe and every where else in Africa there are dictators, massacres & atrocities going on daily, that's a lot of freakin places we could just have an absolute blast in fixing everything up just perfect in like 2 seconds! Sounds like a blast! And why stop there? Let's just run train all over Asia and the middle east wherever we want! I hear there's a couple places that bad stuff still goes on at around those parts....You sound utterly ridiculous, and your argument is just atrocious. lack of honest critical thinking, personal bias, & massive cognitive dissonance... 3 of the worlds biggest problems today IMO.