(Zaman Al Wasl-Agencies)- Turkmen forces in Syria shot dead the two pilots of a Russian jet downed by Turkish warplanes near the border with Turkey on Tuesday as they descended with parachutes, a deputy commander of a Turkmen brigade told reporters.
"Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our comrades opened fire into the air and they died in the air," Alpaslan Celik, a deputy commander in a Syrian Turkmen brigade said near the Syrian village of Yamadi as he held what he said was a piece of a pilot's parachute.
Meanwhile, Syrian state media said that regime army has rescued the crew of the downed Russian helicopter after an emergency landing in Jabal al-Akrad northern Latakia. The 12-soldier crew was searching for the two pilots.
"Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our comrades opened fire into the air and they died in the air," Alpaslan Celik, a deputy commander in a Syrian Turkmen brigade said near the Syrian village of Yamadi as he held what he said was a piece of a pilot's parachute.
Meanwhile, Syrian state media said that regime army has rescued the crew of the downed Russian helicopter after an emergency landing in Jabal al-Akrad northern Latakia. The 12-soldier crew was searching for the two pilots.
Activists and the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say rebels have hit the
helicopter with the U.S.-made TOW missile in Jabal al Krad, or al Krad
Mount
President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's downing of a
Russian fighter jet "a stab in the back" carried out by the accomplices
of terrorists, saying the incident would have serious consequences for
Moscow's relations with Ankara.
Speaking in the
Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi before a meeting with Jordan's King
Abdullah, Putin said the downed plane, which Turkey said it had
repeatedly warned, had been attacked inside Syria when it was 1
kilometer from the Turkish border and had come down 4 kilometers inside
Syria.
In his turn, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will chair a security summit later Tuesday, presidential sources said, to discuss developments after Turkey downed a Russian warplane that Ankara said had violated its airspace.
The meeting will be attended by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the head of the armed forces General Hulusi Akar, the head of the MIT national intelligence agency Hakan Fidan and some ministers, the sources told Reuters.
In his turn, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will chair a security summit later Tuesday, presidential sources said, to discuss developments after Turkey downed a Russian warplane that Ankara said had violated its airspace.
The meeting will be attended by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the head of the armed forces General Hulusi Akar, the head of the MIT national intelligence agency Hakan Fidan and some ministers, the sources told Reuters.
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