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WAR & CONFLICTPutin: Turkey's downing of jet a 'stab in the back'
Russian warplane crashes in Latakia province in Syria, with two pilots seen ejecting from the aircraft.
24 Nov 2015 14:06 GMT | War & Conflict, Middle East, Turkey, Turkey-Syria border
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President Vladimir Putin has said Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border is a "stab in the back" committed by "accomplices of terrorists".
The Russian warplane was shot down on the Syrian border for violating Turkish airspace on Tuesday, Turkish officials said.
Turkish officials told Al Jazeera it was shot down by the Turkish military according to the rules of engagement, but Putin said the jet posed no threat.
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"Today's loss is linked to a stab in the back delivered to us by accomplices of terrorists. I cannot qualify what happened today as anything else," Putin said in televised comments.
"Our plane was shot down over the territory of Syria by an air-to-air missile from a Turkish F-16 jet. It fell in Syrian territory four kilometres from the border with Turkey. Our pilots and our plane did not in any way threaten Turkey."
Reports said the plane, believed to be a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-24, crashed in Syrian territory in Latakia's Yamadi village.
A Turkish military statement said the plane violated Turkish airspace in Hatay province and was warned "10 times in five minutes".
"Our two F-16 planes on air patrol duty intervened ... on November 24, 2015, 9:24am, according to the rules of engagement," the statement said.
Rebel forces have told Al Jazeera that bodies of both pilots have been recovered.
Later, a Russian helicopter was shot as it took part in the search for the two pilots near the Turkish-Syrian border, opposition groups in Syria said.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey had a duty to act against anyone violating its borders.
"Everyone must know that it is our international right and national duty to take any measure against whoever violates our air or land borders," Davutoglu said in Ankara.
Turkey's foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned representatives from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to brief them on the downing of the Russian fighter jet, a Turkish official said.
The Russian defence ministry was quoted by TASS Russian News Agency as saying: "A probe is in progress into the circumstances of the Russian plane crash."
It said the plane had stayed within Syrian airspace and that "objective monitoring data confirm this".
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Gaziantep, said the fighter jet was shot down near the mountains of Antakya.
"What we know so far is that a plane was shot down on Syria's border with Turkey, near the mountains of Antakya, which is a scene of a lot of violence of late.
"Witnesses saw two pilots ejecting from the plane."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/russia-turkey-jet-syria-shot-151124140238943.html
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