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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey restates warning over jets violating its skies |
| 2015-10-18 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... would not hesitate to shoot down military aircraft violating its air space, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday, a day after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member shot down an unidentified drone close to the border with Syria. "We downed a drone yesterday. If it was a plane we'd do the same. Our rules of engagement are known. Whoever violates our borders, we will give them the necessary answer," Davutoglu told a rally of his ruling AK Party in the central city of Kayseri. A U.S. official told Rooters Friday that Washington suspected it was a Russian drone, but said the information was still preliminary and declined to give any more details. Turkey had already complained of Russian warplanes violating its airspace and is still investigating where the drone came from on Friday. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the Russian defence ministry in a swift reaction said on Friday that all its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and all its drones were operating "as planned" after Turkish warplanes shot down the drone. |
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