{"id":14699,"date":"2015-11-24T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T11:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2015-11-24T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T11:48:07","slug":"turkish-f-16s-shoot-down-russian-su-24-warplane-near-syria-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14699","title":{"rendered":"Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-11-24\/turkish-f-16-shoots-down-russian-su-24-warplane-near-syria-border\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Moments ago a big black geopolitical swan landed when newswires lit up with headlines that a Turkish F-16 shot down what was initially said to be an unidentified warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey&#8217;s airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said, but the nationality of the downed aircraft was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian jet crashed in the mountainous Jabal Turkmen area of Latakia, where air strikes and fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces were reported earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/11\/crash%20location.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/11\/crash%20location_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, Turkish F16s warned the jet repeatedly over the airspace violations before shooting it down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/11\/Turkey%201_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/11\/Turkey%202_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/11\/bbg%20plane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2015\/11\/bbg%20plane_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border Moments ago a big black geopolitical swan landed when newswires lit up with headlines that a Turkish F-16 shot down what was initially said to be an unidentified warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey&#8217;s airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[694,10718,776,818,10717,4318],"class_list":["post-14699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-russia","tag-russia-su-24","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-f16","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14700,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}