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Bodies of Turkish jet crew shot down by
Syria found
4.7.2012
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Air Force Lieutenant Hasan Huseyin Aksoy (right) was one of
two airmen found Photo: AP and EPA.
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Turkey says bodies of 2 pilots
whose jet was shot down by Syria have been found in
sea bed
July 4, 2012
ANKARA,— Turkey’s military says bodies of
two pilots whose jet was shot down by Syria have
been found in the sea bed, AP reported.
State-run TRT television says a U.S. deep-sea
exploration vessel, E/V Nautilus, found the bodies
in eastern Mediterranean on Wednesday.
Turkey's armed forces command has said it had found
the bodies of both pilots of an F-4 jet shot down by
Syria on the seabed and was working on retrieving
them, BBC reported.
Syrian forces
shot down the
RF-4 plane on June 22. Turkey says it was hit in
international airspace while Syria insists it was
flying inside Syrian airspace.
Syria says it downed the jet in self-defence when it
was inside Syrian airspace. Turkey says the plane
accidentally violated Syrian airspace for a few
minutes but was later brought down in international
airspace.
Turkey dismisses this assertion, saying the plane
was unarmed, was not hiding its identity and was
attacked without warning.
Turkey has heightened military activity along its
border with Syria since the incident and scrambled
F-16 fighter jets on three consecutive days in the
past week after it spotted Syrian transport
helicopters flying near the Turkish border.
Ankara has said the shooting down would not go
"unpunished" and summoned a meeting of its NATO
allies shortly after the incident,www.ekurd.net
but it has not retaliated. Both Syria and Turkey
have said they do not want the incident to lead to
an armed conflict.
The downing of the plane has worsened already tense
Turkish-Syrian relations.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he regretted
the incident.
Turkey has
sent missile
batteries, tanks and troops to the border with Syria
as a "security corridor", almost a week after the
Syrian downing of a Turkish military jet, media
reports said Thursday.
Turkey's president
says his
country would take the "necessary" action against
Syria, a day after Damascus said it had brought down
a Turkish military plane that had entered its air
space.
Sources: AP | BBC | Aljazeera | Agencies
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