Turkey shoots down ‘air vehicle’ close to Syria border

The Turkish Air Force on Friday shot down an unidentified drone in the country’s airspace close to the border with Syria, the Turkish general staff said.

The aircraft was warned three times to turn back before being fired on by Turkish jets patrolling the border, the Turkish military said in a statement. It crashed inside Turkish territory.

Earlier this month, Turkish officials warned that Russian planes that cross the border into Turkey could be shot down.

The United States, Russian Federation and the Syrian government all operate drones in the region.

A United States official said as many as 2,000 fighters from Iran and its regional allies were supporting the army’s offensive in coordination with Russian Federation. Turkey announced that any aircraft entering its airspace from Syria would be considered a threat after Syrian ground fire brought down a Turkish F-4 Phantom II fighter jet in 2012.

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He also added, “The impression is that the incident in Turkish airspace was used in order to include North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as an organization into the information campaign unleashed in the West, which perverts and distorts the purposes of the operation conducted by the Russian air forces in Syria”.

The aircraft downed inside Turkish air space is a drone, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu told a press conference in Ankara Friday.

Troops are also trying to advance to the east of Aleppo towards Kweires military airport, aiming to break a siege on the base by Islamic State and other insurgents, the UK-based Observatory said.

In an interview with the Rossiya TV channel, Dmitry Medvedev said that it is not important to Russian Federation who leads Syria in the future, as long as it is not ISIS.

President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of former Soviet nations in Kazakhstan the Russian military has achieved “impressive” results in Syria in the last two-and-a-half weeks.

Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said Russian Federation had carried out “dozens” of strikes on the area, which is controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups, including moderates, Islamists and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

But the defence ministry in Moscow said all of its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and that all its drones were operating “as planned”.

At least 250,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, with 7.6 million internally displaced and over four million having fled to nearby countries.