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Turkey shoots down Syrian helicopter after it enters airspace

Turkey said it had downed a Syrian military helicopter which violated its airspace.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc announced that a Syrian helicopter has been shot down Photo: AFP

By Josie Ensor, and agencies
6:13PM BST 16 Sep 2013


A Syrian MI-17 helicopter was detected 1.2 miles inside Turkish airspace at 2:20pm, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said.

"It was continuously warned by our air defence but as the violation continued, it fell on Syrian soil, having been hit by missiles from our planes," he added.

Arinc said there was no information about the fate of its crew because the helicopter fell on Syrian soil.

Turkey has changed its military rules of engagement in response to repeated gunfire from the Syrian side towards the border areas, Arinc added.

Relations have deteriorated between Damascus and Ankara, who were once close allies, since the outbreak of an anti-Assad uprising and the unleashing by the regime of a brutal crackdown against dissent in March 2011.


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Turkey has since then consistently lobbied for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's downfall and has deployed NATO Patriot missiles along its border with Syria.

Earlier on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported that a Syrian military helicopter had crashed near the Turkish border.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the helicopter had landed on the Syrian side of the border and that rebel fighters had captured one of its two pilots.

The second pilot's fate is unknown, he said.




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