Turkey accuses Syrian air defense systems in intercepting its fighter jets during patrol of borders

Missile systems of Syria monitored Turkish fighter jets, which were patrolling the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday, - Turkish General Staff reported on Wednesday.

The report, in particular, says: air defense system, located on the territory of Syria, captured eight MiG-16 as targets for 30 seconds, they were flying along the border. Before that, Ankara informed about hindrances to their fighters two times . On Monday, the Turkish General Staff reported that an unidentified fighter jet MiG-29, on October 4, chased two Turkish F-16 fighter near the Syrian-Turkish border for a few minutes. On October 6, Turkish General Staff reported that on Sunday, October 5. another MiG-29 held eight Turkish fighter jets on his radar sight for 4 minutes 30 seconds.

The Russian Defense Ministry denies any involvement in all of these incidents and claims that "there are no aircrafts of this type at Hmeymim airbase."