Turkey says it shot down Syrian helicopter

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's deputy prime minister says a Turkish jet has shot down a Syrian military helicopter after it entered Turkish airspace.

Bulent Arinc told reporters in Ankara that the pilots of the helicopter were warned repeatedly on Monday after they had strayed 2 kilometers (more than 1 mile) into Turkish airspace.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/turkish-official-says-turkish-jet-shot-down-syrian-helicopter-entered-turkeys-airspace

[ColesCountyDem]

1. It's not a good idea to piss off the Turks. n/t

[Eugene]

2. Turkey says will inform U.N., NATO on Syrian helicopter downing

Source: Reuters

Turkey says will inform U.N., NATO on Syrian helicopter downing

PARIS | Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:15pm EDT

(Reuters) - Turkey will provide the U.N. Security Council and fellow members of the NATO military alliance with details of the circumstances of its shooting down on Monday of a Syrian helicopter, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

Turkish warplanes shot down the Syrian Mi-17 helicopter after it violated Turkish airspace following repeated warnings, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said earlier.

(Writing by Jonathon Burch and Nick Tattersall; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/us-syria-crisis-turkey-un-idUSBRE98F0OJ20130916

[pampango]

3. Could there have been a second Syrian helicopter?

Earlier on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported that a Syrian military helicopter had crashed near the Turkish border.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the helicopter had landed on the Syrian side of the border and that rebel fighters had captured one of its two pilots. The second pilot's fate is unknown, he said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g56aXlgYy2r2toGCFCrOSpnjrwhw?docId=CNG.0591ca80b47dacc366db23efa26e17bf.21

The helicopter in this story landed on the Syrian side of the border and was not shot down. It may be that both articles are about the same helicopter and there is confusion on the battlefield.

[jessie04]

4. I've said it many times.

Turkey will start WW3.

[Kennah]

5. And so it begins