Turkey calls for NATO meeting over Syria
Source: AP-Excite
By SELCAN HACAOGLU
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey on Sunday called for an extraordinary meeting of NATO after one of its planes was shot down by Syria in international airspace after it had mistakenly strayed into Syrian territory.
Turkey insisted the plane was not on a spying mission, and filed an official protest note to Damascus.
State-run TRT television reported that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had called the meeting for Tuesday over article 4 of the NATO charter concerning Friday's incident.
The article says member countries "will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened."
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Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria.
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