Posted on 03/23/2014 2:23:27 PM PDT by eldoradude
Turkish armed forces shot down a Syrian plane on Sunday that Ankara said had crossed into its air space in an area where Syrian rebels have been battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces for control of a border crossing.
"A Syrian plane violated our airspace," Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told an election rally in northwest Turkey. "Our F-16s took off and hit this plane. Why? Because if you violate my airspace, our slap after this will be hard."
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Please delete - did a search which didn’t find it but see there is already a thread on this Thanks!
FMCDH(BITS)
“Turkey shoots down Syrian plane....”
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Since when do turkeys carry missiles?
The Israeli Air Force calls the Syrian Air Force target practice.
I bet it wasn’t a turkey, but a drone that looked like a turkey.
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