The Wall St. Journal is busy with one-sided journalism and is taking sides ahead of the coming United States elections, the Turkish prime minister ERDOGAN has stated after the daily contradicted Ankara’s version of the events surrounding the June 22 shooting down of Turkish jet by Syria.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected Wall St. Journal’s recent claims which told the plane was stroke in Syrian airspace, mentioning senior United States. defense officials as a source.
“Who are these sources?” Erdoğan asked on an event in the Central Anatolia province of Kayseri, calling on the WSJ to uncover its sources and accusing the paper of “cowardliness” by concealment of the origin of their stories. “They’ve released lies earlier as well.”
Erdoğan also criticised the local media for admitting the Wall St. Journal story as the true and declining the reports from Turkish authorities, such as the military and the Foreign Ministry. Erdoğan attached the WSJ’s reports to the coming elections in the United States, telling the stories staunched from the anti-Barack Obama attitude in the country.
An weaponless Turkish military jet was downed June 22 by Syria. Turkey lays claim that the plane was shot in international air space with a heat- or laser-guided missile, but Syria refuses the claims, stating the Turkish jet was shot by anti-aircraft gunners as it aviated at an height of 100 meters within Syrian airspace.
