MSNBC News | 24 June 2012 | 08:00 EST
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Turkey called for an extraordinary meeting of NATO on Sunday after one of its planes was shot down by Syria in
international airspace – an incident condemned by Britain as “outrageous”.
Turkey insisted the plane, which had mistakenly strayed into Syrian territory, 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."
The wreckage of the plane was discovered in the Mediterranean on Sunday at a depth of 3,281 feet, TRT reported. The
pilots still have not been accounted for.
Nato spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said the North Atlantic Council, the principal political decision-making body within the
military alliance, would meet in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the incident.
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Turkey called for an extraordinary meeting of NATO on Sunday after one of its planes was shot down by Syria in
international airspace – an incident condemned by Britain as “outrageous”.
Turkey insisted the plane, which had mistakenly strayed into Syrian territory, 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."
The wreckage of the plane was discovered in the Mediterranean on Sunday at a depth of 3,281 feet, TRT reported. The
pilots still have not been accounted for.
Nato spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said the North Atlantic Council, the principal political decision-making body within the
military alliance, would meet in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the incident.
