"It's Russian-made, but Russia has told us it doesn't belong to them," PM Ahmet Davutoglu said during a television interview.
Turkey shot the drone down on Friday after it violated its air space near the Syrian border despite three warnings.
Davutoglu said it could have belonged to Syrian government forces -- to whom Russia supplies arms -- or Kurdish armed groups in Syria, or "it could belong to a militia".
The US military had said it believed the drone was of Russian origin, but Moscow said all its drones were accounted for.
NATO member Turkey has bridled at Russia's efforts to prop up the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who Turkey wants ousted.
The country has accused Russian aircraft operating in Syria of violating its air space twice, with Moscow blaming poor weather.
Davutoglu on Monday warned Moscow against repeating the incursion, saying the drone "incident has once again proved that Turkey both has the capacity and the political will to put an end to such violations."
"I hope that Russia will adopt a more careful stance... and Turkish-Russian relations will not be negatively affected," he said.
(AFP)
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19/10/15
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The US Air Force recently lost control of two armed Predator drones in separate incidents in Turkey and Iraq, a US military official said Wednesday...
ReplyDeleteThe Predators were both carrying air-to-surface Hellfire missiles when they crashed, but these were safely recovered along with the aircraft.
In the first case on October 17, a Predator crew reported a "lost link and subsequent crash while the Predator was flying southeast of Baghdad," military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.
Local Iraqi police recovered the drone in the vicinity of Al-Kut. They returned the aircraft to US control and there were no injuries, Warren said.
Then on October 19, a different Predator "crashed" in southern Turkey, Warren said. Local media have said it came down in Hatay.
"The aircraft experienced mechanical failure. The Air Force in this case maintained positive control of the aircraft and brought it down safely in an unpopulated area," Warren said.
Again, the aircraft was returned to US control. Both incidents are under investigation.......AFP.......http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/89810-151021-two-armed-us-predator-drones-crash-in-iraq-turkey
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