Turkey has confirmed this Tuesday, the dropdown of a military Russian plane for the violation of the Turkish air space and for not paying attention to the warnings, the incident was registered near to Syria’s border. The combat plane, a Su-24 ignored at least 10 warnings from the Turkish air force, and was dropped down by two F-16.
Because an apparent air space violation in Hatay Yaladag’s a region close to the Syrian-Turkish border, a non-identified plane was dropped down, that is what the Turkish army said. According to the information that was provided by the local media, it is suspected that one of the pilots was killed in the incident, while the other one was arrested by the Syrian military forces, that are fighting against Bashar Al Asad’s regime.
A while after, Moscow admitted that one of its plane was dropped down, nevertheless, it denied that the plane in any moment got into Turkey air space, the official inform also affirms that the plane was dropped down from land, produced by flak fire. The Russian state agency Sputnik, said that “according to earlier informs, the plane was dejected from the land.
Part of the communication of the Turkish military group, says that: “following the combat rules, at 09:24 local time, two of our F-16 intervened, these planes were patrolling the zone”, the fact caused an immediate reaction from that country, due to not having any permission that allowed the plane to fly over a foreign space.
Because of this incident, Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, sent the secretary of state to consult with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations and every country that is involved in the incidents registered in Syria’s border.
Since 4 years ago, Syria is surrounded by a civil war that has taken the life to thousands of people, while survivors have to leave their country to save their lives, arriving to the closest city. An important fact is that Turkey is firmly opposed to Bachar Al Asad’s regimen and so is Russia with Bachar Al Asad’s.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, thinks that the incident is “really serious”, nevertheless, he affirmed that any conclusion can be made without an appropriate investigation about the incident. “Until now, the secretary of defense hasn’t confirmed that he dropped down our combat plane. As a matter of fact, we know the plane was in Syrian air space, over Syrian territory”, Peskov said.
The dropdown of the Russian plane might represent a complication in building a united front against the terrorist group ISIS. It is going to be the next hours of investigations what will contribute more details about the accident and obtain a detailed official inform.
ALFA