{"id":44349,"date":"2019-09-30T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44349"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:41:02","slug":"turkey-shoots-down-drone-near-syria-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44349","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Shoots Down Drone Near Syria Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Sept 30 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkish army, on Sunday, shot down a drone that violated Turkish airspace for six times, the Defence Ministry, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Turkish F-16 fighter jets tracked down the drone, after its repeated violations of Turkish airspace, but which country the drone belonged to, could not be immediately determined, said the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The violations occurred in the operation centre of Euphrates Shield, and the southern province of Kilis, the ministry&#8217;s statement said, noting that, the wreckage of the drone was found in Kilis, between a military base and a temporary sheltering centre for refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Turkey launched an air and ground offensive against the Syrian Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG) militia, that Ankara considers as a terrorist group in Afrin, in northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main objective is to clear the Kurdish forces from its 900-km-long border with Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Turkey is in talks with the United States for setting up a safe zone in the east of the Euphrates, which also aims at sweeping up the Kurdish fighters to the south.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Sept 30 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkish army, on Sunday, shot down a drone that violated Turkish airspace for six times, the Defence Ministry, said. Two Turkish F-16 fighter jets tracked down the drone, after its repeated violations of Turkish airspace, but which country the drone belonged to, could not be immediately determined, said the ministry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}