{"id":401028,"date":"2020-09-30T15:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401028"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:10:51","slug":"armenia-says-its-fighter-jet-shot-down-by-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/armenia-says-its-fighter-jet-shot-down-by-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia says its fighter jet ‘shot down by Turkey’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Armenia says one of its fighter jets was shot down by a Turkish jet in a major escalation of the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Armenian foreign ministry said the pilot of the Soviet-made SU-25 died after being hit by the Turkish F-16 in Armenian air space.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Turkey, which is backing Azerbaijan in the conflict, has denied the claim.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nearly 100 people, including civilians, have died in three days of fighting over the disputed mountainous region.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The enclave is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but has been run by ethnic Armenians since a 1988-94 war between the two former Soviet republics.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Azerbaijan has repeatedly stated that its air force does not have F-16 fighter jets. However, Turkey does.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The fighting that started three days ago now appears to be spilling out of Nagorno-Karabakh, with Armenia and Azerbaijan trading accusations of direct fire into their territories.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They also blame each other for starting the conflict.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While Turkey openly backs Azerbaijan, Russia – which has a military base in Armenia but is also friendly with Azerbaijan – has called for an immediate ceasefire.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Source: BBC<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armenia says one of its fighter jets was shot down by a Turkish jet in a major escalation of the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Armenian foreign ministry said the pilot of the Soviet-made SU-25 died after being hit by the Turkish F-16 in Armenian air space. Turkey, which is backing Azerbaijan in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":401029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401030,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401028\/revisions\/401030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}