Saturday, January 30, 2016

Turkey Accuses Russia Of Violating Its Airspace Near The Syria Border Again



Reuters: Turkey says Russian jet violated its airspace again, warns of consequences

Turkey warned of consequences on Saturday after saying a Russian SU-34 jet had violated its airspace despite warnings, once more stoking tensions between two countries involved in Syria's war, but Russia denied that there had been any incursion.

In a similar incident in November, Turkey shot down a Russian warplane flying a sortie over Syria that it said had violated its airspace, triggering a diplomatic rupture in which Russia imposed economic sanctions.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov denied that any Russian plane had entered Turkish airspace, and called the Turkish allegation "pure propaganda".

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WNU Editor: Russia is denying these Turkish claims .... Russia denies that its military jets violated Turkish airspace (Reuters).

More News On Turkey Accusing Russia Of Violating Its Airspace Near The Syria Border Again

Turkey says Russia violated its airspace near Syria border -- BBC
Turkey accuses Russia of new airspace violation -- France 24
Turkey issues warning to Russia, claiming airspace violation -- Washington Post/AP
Turkey Says Russia Violated Its Airspace Again -- WSJ
Turkey says another Russian jet has invaded airspace despite warnings -- The Guardian
Turkey condemns Russia for violating airspace -- UPI
Turkey says Russia violated its airspace, Erdogan calls for meeting with Putin -- Euronews
Turkey says Russia violated airspace, summons ambassador -- CNN
Turkey warns Russia they 'face consequences' after fresh airspace violations -- IBTimes
Erdogan warns Russia after 'violation' of Turkish airspace -- DW
Turkey, Russia in fresh row over airspace violations -- The News
Turkey says Su-34 violated airspace, Moscow shrugs off report as ‘propaganda’ -- RT
NATO Calls for ‘Calm, De-Escalation’ From Russia and Turkey -- Bloomberg
Another Russian jet in Turkish airspace: What is Russia's strategy? -- Jason Thomson, CSM

5 comments:

Bob Huntley said...

The US and Britain must have some cockpit feeds to prove the allegations one way or the other.

Caecus said...

no sign of Turkish F-16s since S-400 was deployed?

Jay Farquharson said...

WNU Editor,

The Turks say they detected an SU-34M on radar.

The Russians pointed out that while you can detect aircraft on radar, radar doesn't tell you the make and model of the aircraft, only visual id's do, so, if there was an aircraft, it could have been anybody's, but it wasn't Russia's.

Jay Farquharson said...

Only over northern Turkey where the TAF is bombing their own Kurds.

Caecus said...

Aha, thanks for the info