{"id":8580,"date":"2017-03-04T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/suspected-syrian-plane-crashes-near-turkey-border\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:27:41","slug":"suspected-syrian-plane-crashes-near-turkey-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/suspected-syrian-plane-crashes-near-turkey-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Syrian plane &#8216;crashes near Turkey border&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Map of Idlib in Syria and Hatay in Turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7214\/production\/_94940292_turkeyhatay9762017.png\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A plane believed to be a Syrian military aircraft has crashed near the border between Syria and Turkey, Turkish officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it was a MiG-23 warplane.<\/p>\n<p>He said a search was under way for the pilot, who was believed to have ejected. <\/p>\n<p>An Islamist group which is fighting the Syrian government tweeted a video it said showed a plane being &quot;targeted&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#039;s state-run news agency Anadolu quoted a spokesman for the Islamist group Ahrar-al_sham, Ahmed Karaali, saying the regime plane was allegedly bombing Idlib province in northern Syria when it was shot down by the opposition forces.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yildirim said the plane had crashed near the town of Samandag in Hatay province.<\/p>\n<p>Hatay governor Erdal Ata told Anadolu that rescue teams had arrived at the wreckage and reported that the cockpit was empty.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yildirim said it was not clear why the plane had crashed. &quot;It may be due to weather conditions,&quot; Reuters quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-39167710 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane believed to be a Syrian military aircraft has crashed near the border between Syria and Turkey, Turkish officials say. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}