Syrian military aircraft, which was on a mission against the Islamist terrorists who had entered—from Turkey—Syria’s predominantly Armenian-populated town of Kessab, was hit by Turkish fighter planes.

A Syrian government military aircrafts were pursuing the terrorists when the Turkish air forces unexpectedly violated Syrian air space and hit one of the Syrian planes with a missile, thereby assisting the terrorists who had come to massacre the Christians, Sozcu daily of Turkey reported citing Syrian sources. 

The damaged military aircraft fell to the ground, but its pilot managed to escape with a parachute.

The Turkish Armed Forces General Staff issued a statement claiming that the Syrian aircraft was shot at because it had violated Turkish airspace. 

As reported earlier, in the early morning on March 21, detachments from the Al-Nusra terrorist group launched a large-scale attack, from four sides, on northern Syria’s Latakia Governorate, which is inhabited by Armenians and Alawites.

It is noted that two large groups of terrorists had launched the attack from Turkey.