June 23, 2012
ALAWITES AREN'T TURKS:
Ankara vows response after Syria downs Turkish jet (France 24, 6/23/12)
Never a good idea to give a natural enemy--especially a US ally--a pretext to attack you.Syria on Saturday confirmed it had shot down a Turkish fighter jet that had entered their territory, as Turkey said it would take "necessary steps" once it had established all the facts.A Syrian military spokesman told the country's official news agency SANA that they had opened fire on an "unidentified target" that had entered its airspace, bringing it down in Syrian waters.They had subsequently established that it had been a Turkish fighter and the two countries' navies were now cooperating in an operation to find the two missing pilots, the agency reported.This latest crisis will likely further test relations between the two neighbors, already strained over Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's outspoken condemnation of Syria's bloody crackdown on anti-government protests.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 23, 2012 7:37 AM
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