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Turkey says shot down helicopter, while Syrian TV says it was drone
Turkey said it shot down a Syrian helicopter on Saturday that had violated its airspace, while Syrian state media said it was a remotely controlled surveillance drone.
NATO member Turkey, an outspoken critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has a 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria and frequently scrambles jets to its frontier worried about territorial violations.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said military jets fired upon a Syrian helicopter after first mistaking it for another type of aircraft due to fog.
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But Syrian state TV denied Turkey had taken out its aircraft and said it was a surveillance drone that was shot down.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/16/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-idUSKBN0O10II20150516