Turkey shoots down russian military plane on Syria border

[Pegas]

Turkey shoots down military plane on Syria border

Turkey on Tuesday shot down a military plane on the Syrian border, local media reported, citing military sources.

A plane exploded in the air and the fireball fell on a Turkmen mountain on the Syrian side of the border, CNN-Turk and NTV televisions reported.

A Turkish government official told AFP: "We are tying to identify the nationality of the plane."

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/turkey-shoots-down-military-plane-syria-border-media-081827673.html

Downed foreign jet received 10 warnings in five minutes, challenged by two F-16s, Turkish General Staff says

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUkSvH9WcAA3f8-.jpg

AFP : #BREAKING Two pilots ejected from downed plane, one captured by Syria rebels: Turkish reports

[saddampbuh]

act of war by terrorist supporter turkey

lets see if obama cameron and hollande will start ww3 to protect them

[Pegas]

act of war by terrorist supporter turkey

lets see if obama cameron and hollande will start ww3 to protect them

nope, just two years of russian provocations on the borders of NATO have completed just such a "landing" for the Russian aircraft

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUkT9G1VAAEWqRL.jpg

[Pegas]

Russia has been violating NATO airspace for yrs w/ no consequences. Blame for Su24 downing lies with Putin & his disregard for intl law. 

[RejiDevsa]

act of war by terrorist supporter turkey

lets see if obama cameron and hollande will start ww3 to protect them

nope, just two years of russian provocations on the borders of NATO have completed just such a "landing" for the Russian aircraft

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUkT9G1VAAEWqRL.jpg

And NATO does the same thing. In this case, the Russians say they didn't violate Turkish airspace. But it doesn't matter now. This is just going to increase tensions in the region unnecessarily.

Russia has been violating NATO airspace for yrs w/ no consequences. Blame for Su24 downing lies with Putin & his disregard for intl law. 

It's not like NATO is any better.

[Pegas]

BREAKING : Turkey urgently convene the NATO and the UN to consult

BREAKING: Russian FM Lavrov cancels trip to Ankara following downing of Russian jet over

PHOTO: Flight radar track on downed warplane issued by Turkish military

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[Pegas]

Dead Russian pilot after Su-24 shot down over Latakia province

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cdkf3Xx3nw

[HWoodrow]

Hope that nothing will happen. It is very hard to prevent what will happen. Target was that every west state must be united in way to fight against the ISIS.

[bitcollins85]

Middle east is very complicated and problematic places in the world. I really doubt that it will be OK sooner.
I think last action taken by Turkey will be starting of  a new warish (hopefully not war) situation.

[Tzupy]

[Lauda]

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Where did you get this image from? AFAIK it was not violating airspace and even if it was there was no attempted contact with the pilot. This pretty much shows who is supporting and who is fighting the terrorists. One could even see this as an act of war. Here's Putin talking about it. Instead of imminently contacting Russia, they want to contact NATO first.

Russia has been violating NATO airspace for yrs w/ no consequences. Blame for Su24 downing lies with Putin & his disregard for intl law.  

Stop supporting Western terrorist coalition. Stop being ignorant and wake up.

[Pegas]

REPORTS: Multiple reports on social media of Russian helicopter assisting in search & rescue downed by TOW missile. More info when available reuters

Where did you get this image from? AFAIK it was not violating airspace and even if it was there was no attempted contact with the pilot. This pretty much shows who is supporting and who is fighting the terrorists. One could even see this as an act of war. Here's Putin talking about it.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7343nXyGS0s) Instead of imminently contacting Russia, they want to contact NATO first.

need less to listen to Putin, such liars the world did not know

[cabsav]

-snip-

Where did you get this image from? AFAIK it was not violating airspace and even if it was there was no attempted contact with the pilot. This pretty much shows who is supporting and who is fighting the terrorists. One could even see this as an act of war. Here's Putin talking about it. Instead of imminently contacting Russia, they want to contact NATO first.

Russia has been violating NATO airspace for yrs w/ no consequences. Blame for Su24 downing lies with Putin & his disregard for intl law.  

Stop supporting Western terrorist coalition. Stop being ignorant and wake up.

of course they will go nato first. when you have fight do you go to your home first or your fight partner home?
They will inform nato then they will communicate with Russia with nato. If you are in nato u cannot act like whatever you want.

[Lauda]

If you are in nato u cannot act like whatever you want.

Apparently you can shoot friendly planes at wish or are you implying that someone in NATO gave the go signal for this attack?

[Nishashah]

we are heading towards 3rd World War.

[Pab]

Russian fighter has been shuted down on Turkey Teritory by two Turkiey fighters
live on Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/24/russian-jet-downed-by-turkish-planes-near-syrian-border-live-updates

[gurcani]

You won't have a WW3 from this. But Turkey is totally dependant on Russian gas. Russia is Turkey's largest natural gas supplier, with Ankara buying 28-30 billion cubic meters of its 50 bcm of natural gas needs annually from Russia. Russia is also building a nuclear power station in Turkey.

These deals could be cancelled in Russian terms, and Turkey would have a very hard winter:

Turkey imports Russian gas primarily through two pipelines, one passing through the northwestern region of Thrace, the other entering Turkey from under the Black Sea.
"No gas entry from Thrace means the end of Turkey as that gas pipeline feeds all of Istanbul and the Marmara region. There is no alternative pipeline system that can bring this gas."

[Tzupy]

The Su-24 was downed by a missile, that was launched while it was still in Turkish airspace (barely).
Several seconds later it was hit, about 1 km inside Syrian airspace, and crashed about 4 km inside Syrian territory.
That territory is not controlled by daesh, but by Turkmen militias, that oppose Assad.
It seems that one of the pilots was shot by the militias and soon died, the other has been captured and is still alive.

[Pegas]

FSA 1st Coastal Division destroying a Russian helicopter w/TOW, was already down
Helicopter was sent to rescue downed Russian pilots shot down by Turkey earlier today


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IschF-ihjS0

[Ankara]

If it crosses Hatay border Turkey has right to shoot any flying creature. That's out of discussion.