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Turkish warplanes have shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that violated Turkey’s airspace from Syria, the Turkish Ministry of National Defence announced in the afternoon of September 29.
The ministry said in an official statement that the UAV violated Turkey’s airspace six times before being shot down, adding that its nationality could not be immediately determined.
“[The UAV] was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from Incirlik [Air Base],” the ministry’s statement reads.
The UAV reportedly came from the direction of the Turkish-occupied Euphrates Shield (ES) region in the northern part of Syria’s Aleppo.
The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) are known to be operating near the ES region. However, operations there are supposedly coordinated with Turkey, at least from the Russian side.
The incident will not likely cause any serious escalation, especially that the Turkish Ministry of National Defence is yet to identify the UAV operator.
So Turkey is worried about violations of its airspace while invading its neighbour!!
The SyAAF are yet to comment, so chances are that it isn’t one of theirs.
Drug smugglers?
Yup. MIT, Turkish Intelligence. The pay sucks, so they need to make a few shekels on the side. You know, just like the CIA. It’s not immoral because… um, drug addicts shouldn’t use illegal drugs.
Always wondered if the CIA was using all those USAF drones to move heroin from Afghanistan to, say, Norway…. Apparently there’s suddenly a lot of good shit in Oslo, but it would be immoral to use it….
USA,France,British NATO foreign policy and mentality.
Failed Turkish drone mean for Hmeimim Russian base.
probably Israeli false flag attempt, attack Incirlik and blame it on Iran
Or HTS trying to provoke Turkey into extra support for them.
An unknown drone violates 6 times Turkish airspace until 2 F-16 manage to shoot it down. What is hilarious in this story? Could be the skills of Turkish pilots???
“the Turkish Ministry of National Defence is yet to identify the UAV operator”. LOL but we all know who was operating it and where it actually came from, the ALF Kurds still loyal to Assad launched it from SAA held territory in Northern Aleppo [where they live under Assad’s patronage] that’s who, but the Turks already know that, I just wonder why they just said they don’t know yet, LOL. Has Assad been giving the ALF some new toys to play with, I think he has, what else has he given them I wonder, what else can Erdogan expect now. I see the Turks are attacking Harbul right now so I’ll bet that’s where the drone was launched, come on Russia, this is where you’re supposed to be coordinating patrols with the Turks to stop this sort of thing happening, it’s not working though, if anything it’s gotten worse, LOL. Go ALF, send them hell from the heavens, hopefully Assad has plenty more to give you too, that’s if he did give it to you in the first place, we don’t really know he did yet, wink wink nudge nudge.