Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jet

Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jet

Turkish media reports said Tuesday that Turkish jets shot down a warplane that violated national airspace at the border with Syria.br Turkish presidential sources said the downed jet was a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-24.br The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement denying that the jet violated Turkish airspace.br Turkey's news agency said it crashed into Syrian territory close to the border with Turkey.br Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the warplane crashed in the Turkomen Mountains region in the coastal province of Latakia.br The Turkomen Mountains region has been subjected to a government offensive over the past days, under the cover of Russian airstrikes.


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