Turkey Shoot Falling Jet Russia, An Extraordinary Meeting Of The NATO

The ambassadors of member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday (24,112,015) at the request of Ankara to discuss shooting fighter jets Russia on the border of Syria-Turkey.

At the request of Turkey, NATO will hold an extraordinary meeting at 16.00 (local time). Purpose is to make Turkey inform allies reserved shooting Russia fighter aircraft, said a NATO official told AFP.

NATO to monitor the situation closely. We've contacted the authority of Turkey.

Ankara declared, two F-16 fighter jets shoot down Russia fighter jets, Su-24, for violating the airspace of Turkey as much as 10 times in a period of 5 minutes at the border of Syria.

However, Russia said, the aircraft flew over the airspace of Syria.

28-Member NATO countries will hold an impromptu meeting if the security of one of the Member States is threatened.

Even in a State of danger, Turkey didn't ask for the meeting under article 4 on the agreement. The article reads, a member of NATO should be assisted if the territorial integrity, political independence, or security is being threatened.

Ankara did indeed invoke article 4 on last October to deal with situations when the aircraft Russia several times violated the airspace of Turkey, following air strikes Moscow to rebel bases against Bashar al-Assad, including ISIS.

At that time, NATO warned the danger of big top is not responsible behavior conducted aircraft Russia.

All NATO members which consists of 28 countries agreed with the principles of the one for all and all for one in respond to any military threat faced by its members.

The principle was set forth in article 5 of the NATO agreement.

Article 5 was once asked by the United States after the attacks on September 11, 2011 in New York and Washington.

Turkey, a country with a second military force in NATO after the United States, had several times begging article 4 when Syria propagate to the border conflict.

In response to that request, NATO put the Patriot missiles that can shoot down aircraft and rudalnya in southern Turkey. However, the missiles are withdrawn at the end of this year.

NATO had previously stated that the deployment of the Patriot missiles are being re-examined.