Turkey scrambles two F-16 jets on Syrian border
Turkey scrambled two F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria on Saturday after a Syrian Su-24 bomber came close to the border, the Turkish army said in a statement on Sunday.
The Syrian jet withdrew after coming within 1.2 nautical miles of the Turkish border, the statement said. In 2012, Syrian forces shot down a Turkish jet in the border area. Turkey and Syria were once allies, but the outbreak of civil war in its neighbor prompted Turkey to say that Syrian President Bashar Assad had lost his legitimacy.
