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June 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - F4 jet shot down ‘over Syrian territorial waters’
- Plane disappeared over eastern Mediterranean Sea near Syrian borde
- Syria claims it violated its airspace by 1 kilometre
- Turkish PM Erdogan said it is unclear what happened to the two pilots
- A search and rescue operation has been launched to look for crew
- Turkey ‘will determinedly take necessary steps’ in response
By
Suzannah Hills
11:27 EST, 22 June 2012
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20:06 EST, 22 June 2012
The Syrian military has admitted shooting down a Turkish military aircraft ‘over Syrian territorial waters’.
The F4 Phantom jet disappeared over the Mediterranean yesterday – potentially provoking a fresh crisis between the Middle Eastern neighbours.
‘Our air defences confronted a target that penetrated our air space over our territorial waters pre-afternoon on Friday and shot it down. It turned out to be a Turkish military plane,’ a statement by the military circulated on state media said.
The plane was brought down over the eastern part of the sea, southwest of the Turkish province of Hatay, which borders Syria.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said there is still no confirmation of the fate of its two crew members, but in a statement the government said it ‘will determinedly take necessary steps’ in response.
Missing: An F4 Phantom Turkish fighter jet was shot down by Syrian security forces yesterday over ‘Syrian territorial waters’
He said: ‘The chief of general staff
has made the necessary statement about the missing plane. I am not
saying it was brought down at the point it fell. It is not possible to
say this without knowing the exact facts.’
Erdogan confirmed that the plane went down some eight miles (13km) from the Syrian town of Latakia over the Mediterranean Sea.
He said: ‘Four of our gunboats and some Syrian gunboats are carrying out a joint search there.’
A search and rescue operation was launched and Turkey’s government has called an emergency security meeting.
The jet had taken off from Erhac
airport in the eastern province of Malatya shortly before all contact
with the aircraft was lost.
Turkey’s military confirmed it lost contact with the aircraft over the sea close to the border
with Syria.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar
television station claimed that Syrian security forces were
responsible after a source told the TV channel that Syrian air defences
shot down the Turkish military aircraft.
Unclear: Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said there has been no confirmation of what happened to the two pilots
The station reported: ‘Syrian
security sources confirmed to a Manar correspondent in Damascus that
Syrian defence forces shot down the Turkish fighter jet.’
it’s alleged the plane strayed one kilometre into Syrian airspace.
Ilter Turan, a professor of political science at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, told NTV that Syria’s action was clearly ‘hostile,’ even if it violated its air space.
‘They could have either sent their planes to confront it or force it to land, it is a hostile act by any standard,’ Turan said.
Turan, however, predicted that Syria will try to avoid escalating tensions further
This latest incident could further
threaten relations between the two countries already at bitter odds over
a 16-month-old revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey has joined nations such as the
United States in saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad should step
down because of the uprising in his country that has killed thousands of
people.
Turkey also has set up refugee camps on its border for more than 32,000 Syrians who have fled the fighting.
Syria and Turkey have expelled each other’s ambassadors and Syria has accused Turkey of supporting Syrian opposition and even allowing Syrian rebels to operate out of Turkish soil.
Turkey strongly denies the allegations.
After a cross-border shooting by Syrian forces in April, Turkey said it would not tolerate any action that it deemed violating its security. The firing had left two refugees dead at a camp near the town of Kilis just inside Turkey.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Selcuk Unal earlier on Friday rejected allegations that Turkey was sending arms and other equipment to Syrian rebels as baseless. Unal said Turkey was not sending weapons to any of its neighbors, including Syria.
Turkey’s military provided no details on the downed plane’s mission Friday, but some Turkish TV reports said it was on a reconnaissance flight.
Violence raged unabated in Syria yesterday, as the nation appears to be sliding toward a sectarian-tinged civil war pitting majority Sunni Muslims against Assad’s minority Alawite sect.
The F4 jet disappeared over the eastern Mediterranean Sea, southwest of the Turkish province of Hatay, off the border of Syria
The jet had taken off from Erhac airport in the eastern province of Malatya shortly before all contact with the aircraft was lost (file photo)
Four high-placed Syrian military
officials – two brigadier-generals and two colonels who are all brothers
– announced their defection from the army yesterday.
The Turkish lira fell sharply
following news of the jet incident and analysts said it would be
vulnerable to further losses as more details of the incident emerged.
‘The lira eased after reports saying
the Turkish jet was shot down by Syrian air forces. If this is
confirmed, we can see more of a sell-off in the lira,’ said Suha Yaygin,
an emerging markets trader at TD Securities.
The lira fell to 1.8151 to the dollar after the news report, from around 1.8075 beforehand.
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Im thinking propoganda in order to kick start WW3 is going on here.
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I would expect nothing less from our British (English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh) air defences, esp. given the circumstances – of WAR… War calls for waronic acts by warons. Shows off Syrian (Russian, Chinese, US) anti-aircraft missile systems… 10/10 for WARONIC ABILITY…
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The F-4 is 20 years out of date? Are you thinking Vietnam or Desert Storm? Which F-4 variant exactly? The
F-4E 2020’s which started service in 2000 after being upgraded by Israel’s IAI to the 2020 Terminator spec with structural and fully modern advanced avionic suite or F-4E/TM Simsek or the updated RF-4E/TM Isik? You realise that the F-4E 2020 and the F-16’s of the THK (Turkish Air Force) can be armed with cruise missiles like the Tubitak-SAGE SOM delivered in 2011 or missiles like AGM 142/88/65 variants etc? Hardly vulnerable. Was it a probe or some type of ISR/ RSTA/recce mission? Why scramble if you can shoot down a recce mission? There are some reports Syria used its S300PMU system to bring it down. Which country would purposely fly there in such a volatile environment? It doesn’t help Turkey not saying what it was doing there in the first place. It’s a bit more serious than Libya or Iraq here…want to risk some F22s at US$150 million each?
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How convenient….Just when we need Turkey to commit to ground troops in the Syrian invasion, a Turkish plane gets shot down. Either no actual plane was shot down or a pilotless drone was shot down. I just can’t believe their lies anymore
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This looks like a deliberate provocation by Turkey.
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How many good – really good, politically brave and thought-leading people must be slaughtered to keep another mentally ill dictator out of touch with reality in power? Where are the great persuading lawyers to push the UN into general assembly voting and not relying on an idiosyncratic security co0uncil based on the victors of WWII?
2 people in the security council can veto the wishes of the whole world…
How is that democratic?
How is that good?
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
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Sounds very much like a false flag op gone wrong – using an old disposable aircraft which for all we know could have been backed up by another plan when attacked. If you are going to send incursions across the Syrian border like the Israelis do all the time then you either send drones or high tech aircraft that can fool the air defences not something that is old , slow and an easy target . It would be nice to get hold of the plan and see what went wrong , Hitlary must be fuming.
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mike, ivybridge, 22/6/2012 19:26. Wow! With all that insight and expertise can you solve the Euro crisis while you’re at it.
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Only bonus for us is tourists will be staying away from Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, etc and hopefully they will return to the (safe – apart from the timeshare touts) Canary Islands – as our economy depends on them….. so let the muslims sort out their owm problems please!
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Lets not forget the USA is supplying the Muslim brotherhood rebels arms through turkey, Syria has the right to defend its self , too much propaganda from the Bias TV and newspapers these days, and too much support from the Muslim American president. – Fed UP , UK ====================== And the Brits have given arms to the Romulans in their quest for inter-galactic dominance. This can be verified by visiting Kalanda in the, I think, Andoran constellation.
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