#Syria #Turkey seek to calm tensions in wake of jet downing, not possible to ignore

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Syria, Turkey seek to calm tensions in wake of jet downing

June 23, 2012 |  2:12 pm

Syria, Turkey seek to calm tensions in wake of jet downing »

Syrian and Turkish officials moved to tamp down tensions Saturday in the wake of a Syrian shoot-down of a Turkish jet, as the two nations mounted a joint rescue operation seeking two pilots still miss...

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Turkey Promises 'Necessary Steps' After Syria Downs Jet

Wall Street Journal  -  2:12 PM

By JOE PARKINSON ISTANBUL—Turkey on Saturday vowed to take "necessary steps" to respond to the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syria on Friday, but signals from Ankara and Damascus suggested neither wanted a military confrontation over the incident, which raised tensions along the ...

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Robby Ball

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#Turkey Turkish jet 'missing' near #Syria Tension may start rising on the Turkish/Syrian border   Tension may start rising on the Turkish/Syrian border. On a sidenote i didn't the good old F-4 was still flying. You can be quite sure it was a mistake from the Syrian side.

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Turkey: Syria's downing of military jet cannot be ignored »

Updated at 8:50 a.m. ET: Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Saturday it was not possible to ignore the fact that Syria had shot down a Turkish military jet and said everything that needed to be do...