Turkish Fighter Planes to Syrian Border after Air Incident

The Turkish Government sent two F-16 fighter planes to the border with Syria to follow a SU-24 fighter plane, the flight of which over the southeastern region of that country of the Levant was near the province of Cilvegozu, the television in the capital reported today.

The Syrian fighter-bomber change its course to go deeper into his nation, 6.7 kilometers from the border with Turkey in another of the constant incidents of that kind recorded in recent times between Damascus and Ankara.

An F-4 fighter plane of the Turkish Air Force was shot down on June 22, 2012, after transgressing the Syrian airspace in the Mediterranean Sea, the newspaper Hurriyet Daily News recalled.

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