A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Syrian military helicopter on Monday after it entered Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings to leave, an official has said.
The helicopter strayed 2km into Turkish airspace, but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, according to Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Bulent Arinc.
Arinc said he did not have any information on the fate of the Syrian pilots, but Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said rebel fighters captured one of the pilots, while the fate of the other one was unclear.
Turkey scrambled two F-16 jets along the border between its southern Hatay province and Syria after warning that the Mi-17 helicopter was approaching Turkish airspace, the military said in a statement.
It came down in a ball of flames inside Syrian territory after being hit, amateur video footage showed.
Syria's army said that Turkey had been "hasty" in shooting down its helicopter and accused Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government of trying to escalate tensions along the border.
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