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Wreckage of downed Turkish fighter jet found
A file photo of a Turkish Air Force F-4E Phantom fighter jet. (Turkish Armed Forces)
(CBS/AP) ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish state TV says wreckage of a plane shot down by Syria has been found in the Mediterranean at a depth of 1,000 meters.
State television also reports that Turkey has called for an emergency NATO meeting over the downing of its plane by Syria in international airspace.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told State TV that Turkey would seek the meeting 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."
Davutoglu said Sunday that the jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.
He said the plane entered Syrian airspace on Friday, but quickly left when warned by Turkey.
The plane had no "covert mission related to Syria," and it was purely on a training flight to test Turkey's radar capabilities, Davutoglu asserted.
Davutoglu said the plane was shot down by Syria in "international airspace" several minutes after it left.
Syria on Saturday insisted the shooting down of the plane was "not an attack," and that the plane had violated its airspace.
