Turkish fighter jets intercepted a Russian
military plane in international airspace over the Black Sea, the
military said on Wednesday, without giving a reason.
“Two F-16 jets were scrambled
to prevent a potential violation of (Turkish airspace)” after the
Ilyushin II-20 plane was detected flying in parallel to Turkish coast,
the general staff said in a statement about Tuesday’s incident.
Turkish jets intercepted the
plane off the port city of Ordu on the Black Sea coast and monitored its
flight from the Georgian border in the east through to the Bulgarian
border, it added.
It was not immediately clear
why the Russian plane approached Turkish airspace. Such air incidents
between the two countries are rare.
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