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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anti BBS" data-source="post: 19335346" data-attributes="member: 525431">Turkish F16s shot down warplane after it violated airspace - military official<img src="http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBnnBfh.img?h=506&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1236&y=924" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Ankara, Nov 24 (Reuters) -  Turkish fighter jets shot down a warplane near the Syrian border after  it violated Turkey's airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official  said, but the nationality of the downed aircraft was not immediately  clear.Turkish F16s warned the jet over the airspace violations before shooting it down, the military official told Reuters.Footage  from private broadcaster Haberturk TV showed a warplane going down in  flames in a woodland area, a long plume of smoke trailing behind it. The  plane went down in area known by Turks as "Turkmen Mountain" in  northern Syria near the Turkish border, Haberturk said. Separate footage from Turkey's Anadolu Agency showed two pilots parachuting out of the jet before it crashed.Russia  has repeatedly carried out air strikes in Syria in defence of President  Bashar al-Assad. Russia's defence ministry was not immediately  available for comment.Turkey called this week for a U.N. Security  Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens in neighbouring Syria,  and last week Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the  bombing of their villages.Ankara has traditionally expressed solidarity with Syrian Turkmens, who are Syrians of Turkish descent.Turkish  Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has spoken with the chief of military  staff and the foreign minister about the developments on the Syrian  border, the prime minister's office said in a statement, without  mentioning the downed jet.He has ordered the foreign ministry to  consult with NATO, the United Nations and related countries on the  latest developments, his office said.(Additional reporting by  Daren Butler, Melih Aslan and Asli Kandemir in Istanbul and Vladimir  Soldatkin in Moscow; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Nick Tattersall)</blockquote>

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