{"id":203232,"date":"2020-03-01T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203232"},"modified":"2020-03-04T06:45:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:45:41","slug":"turkish-military-shoots-down-2-syrian-jets-crew-parachuted-to-safety-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203232","title":{"rendered":"Turkish military shoots down 2 Syrian jets, crew parachuted to safety \u2013 state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">RT \u2013 March 1, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Syrian-warplane-goes-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-93584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Syrian-warplane-goes-down.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Syrian-warplane-goes-down.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Syrian-warplane-goes-down-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Turkey has shot down two Syrian warplanes in Idlib as part of its offensive in the area, the country\u2019s media says. The Syrian Army reportedly destroyed a Turkish drone on the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Citing a correspondent, state-run Syrian news agency SANA said that Turkish forces struck two Syrian planes in Idlib on Sunday, with their crews ejecting and parachuting to safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Turkish Defense Ministry confirmed it shot down two Syrian Su-24 bombers after one of its combat drones was destroyed by Syrian air defenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FlLjc-2yY6E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">SANA posted a video of a Turkish UAV \u00ab\u00bbbrought down near the town of Saraqib, east of Idlib.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A military source told the outlet that the Syrian Army closed the airspace in the northwestern part of the country, including Idlib Province, and that any aircraft entering Syrian skies will be considered a hostile target.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QMbUzXGihrU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ankara launched Operation Spring Shield in Idlib on Sunday, describing its task as <em>\u201cself-defense\u201d<\/em> against the attacks by Syrian government troops on Turkish soldiers maintaining outposts in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tensions in Idlib flared-up again this week after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in a Syrian airstrike. Russia said it happened because the Turkish personnel were present alongside terrorist units being bombed by Damascus, and Ankara had failed to properly notify Moscow about its troop movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Idlib is the last-remaining stronghold of anti-government forces in Syria, with many belonging to jihadist groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an offshoot of Al-Qaeda.\u00a0Ankara has long promised to separate the moderate groups it backs from the more radical elements, but Russia insists it has failed to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/482053-syrian-jets-downed-turkey\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous escalation after Syria shoots down Turkish drone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":93584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203235,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203232\/revisions\/203235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}