Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the plane had been attacked when it was 1 km (0.62 mile) inside Syria and warned of "serious consequences" for what he termed a stab in the back administered by "the accomplices of terrorists".

"We will never tolerate such crimes like the one committed today," Putin said, as Russian and Turkish shares fell on fears of an escalation between the former Cold War enemies.



Each country summoned a diplomatic representative of the other and NATO called a meeting of its ambassadors for Tuesday afternoon. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov canceled a visit to Turkey due on Wednesday and the defense ministry said it was preparing measures to respond to such incidents.

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11 PHOTOS Russian warplane crashes in Syria near Turkey's border See Gallery Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border, Putin warns of 'serious consequences' An image grab made from a video shows a burning Russian fighter jet coming down after being shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay on November 24, 2015. NATO member Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border today, threatening a major spike in tensions between two key protagonists in the four-year Syria civil war. AFP PHOTO / IHLAS NEWS AGENCY / AFP / IHLAS NEWS AGENCY / - (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Unidentified aircraft goes down in Kizildag region of Turkey's Hatay province, close to the Syrian border, on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft, which went down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak, belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Unidentified aircraft goes down in Kizildag region of Turkey's Hatay province, close to the Syrian border, on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft, which went down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak, belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: A warplane goes down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak near Turkeys border on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Unidentified aircraft goes down in Kizildag region of Turkey's Hatay province, close to the Syrian border, on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft, which went down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak, belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Unidentified aircraft goes down in Kizildag region of Turkey's Hatay province, close to the Syrian border, on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft, which went down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak, belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: A warplane goes down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak near Turkeys border on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: A person parachutes out of a warplane which went down in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak near Turkeys border on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Smoke rises as the Syrian regime forces attack the region where Russian warplane downed within the framework of engagement rules by Turkey in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak near Turkeys border on November 24, 2015. (Photo by Ramazan Ãzdemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Smoke rises after a warplane crashed in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak near Turkeys border on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HATAY, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 24: Smoke rises after a warplane crashed in Syria's northwestern Turkmen town of Bayirbucak near Turkeys border on November 24, 2015. It remains unclear to which country the aircraft belongs to. (Photo by Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Up Next See Gallery Discover More Like This HIDE CAPTION SHOW CAPTION of SEE ALL BACK TO SLIDE

Footage from private Turkish broadcaster Haberturk TV showed the warplane going down in flames, a long plume of smoke trailing behind it as it crashed in a wooded part of an area the TV said was known by Turks as "Turkmen Mountain".

Separate footage from Turkey's Anadolu Agency showed two pilots parachuting out of the jet before it crashed. A deputy commander of rebel Turkmen forces in Syria said his men shot both pilots dead as they came down.

A video sent to Reuters earlier appeared to show one of the pilots immobile and badly wounded on the ground and an official from the group said he was dead.

Russia's defense ministry said one of its Su-24 fighter jets had been downed in Syria and that, according to preliminary information, the pilots were able to eject.

"For the entire duration of the flight, the aircraft was exclusively over Syrian territory," it said.

The Turkish military said the aircraft had been warned 10 times in the space of five minutes about violating Turkish air space. Officials said a second plane had also approached the border and been warned.

"The data we have is very clear. There were two planes approaching our border, we warned them as they were getting too close," a senior Turkish official told Reuters.

"We warned them to avoid entering Turkish air space before they did, and we warned them many times. Our findings show clearly that Turkish air space was violated multiple times. And they violated it knowingly," the official said.

A second official said the incident was not an action against any specific country but a move to defend Turkey's sovereign territory within its rules of engagement.

A U.S. military spokesman said it was an issue between the Turkish and Russian governments and that U.S.-led coalition operations in Syria and Iraq were continuing "as planned".

Raw footage of the plane crash:



RUSSIA TARGETS TOURISM

Russia's decision to launch separate air strikes in Syria mean Russian and NATO planes have been flying combat missions in the same air space for the first time since World War Two, targeting various insurgent groups close to Turkish borders.

Russia's military involvement in Syria has brought losses, including the downed jet and the bombing by militants of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt. But there is no sign yet that public opinion is turning against the operation in Syria.

Instead the Kremlin, helped by deferential state-controlled television, has used these reverses to rally public opinion, portraying the campaign as a moral crusade that Russia must complete, despite indifference or obstruction from elsewhere.

A U.S. official said U.S. forces were not involved in the downing of the Russian jet, which was the first time a Russian or Soviet military aircraft has been publicly acknowledged to have been shot down by a NATO member since the 1950s.



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The incident appeared to scupper hopes of a rapprochement between Russia and the West in the wake of the Islamic State attacks in Paris, which led to calls for a united front against the radical jihadist group in Syria.

Russia's main stock index fell more than two percent, while Turkish stocks fell 1.3 percent. Both the rouble and lira were weaker.

Lavrov advised Russians not to visit Turkey and one of Russia's largest tour operators to the country said it would temporarily suspend sales of trips.

SHOT AS THEY FELL

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was briefed by the head of the military, while Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was due to report on the incident to NATO ambassadors. He also informed the United Nations and related countries.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the warplane crashed in a mountainous area in the northern countryside of Latakia province, where there had been aerial bombardment earlier and where pro-government forces have been battling insurgents on the ground.

"A Russian pilot," a voice is heard saying in the video sent to Reuters as men gather around the man on the ground. "God is great," is also heard.

The rebel group that sent the video operates in the northwestern area of Syria, where groups including the Free Syrian Army are active but Islamic State, which has beheaded captives in the past, has no known presence.

A deputy commander of a Turkmen brigade told reporters on a trip organized by Turkish authorities that his forces had shot dead both pilots as they descended. U.S. and Turkish officials said they could not confirm the pilots' status.

"Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our comrades opened fire into the air and they died in the air," Alpaslan Celik said near the Syrian village of Yamadi, close to where the plane came down, holding what he said was a piece of a pilot's parachute.

In a further sign of a growing fallout over Syria, Syrian rebel fighters who have received U.S. arms said they fired at a Russian helicopter, forcing it to land in territory held by Moscow's Syrian government allies.

Turkey called this week for a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens, who are Syrians of Turkish descent, and last week Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador to protest against the bombing of their villages.

About 1,700 people have fled the mountainous area due to fighting in the last three days, a Turkish official said on Monday. Russian jets have bombed the area in support of ground operations by Syrian government forces.

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6 PHOTOS Notable plane crashes in recent years See Gallery Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border, Putin warns of 'serious consequences' A photo taken on July 23, 2014 shows the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in a field near the village of Grabove, in the Donetsk region. The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on July 23 almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, with grieving relatives and the king and queen solemnly receiving the as yet unidentified victims. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) Firefighters (L) inspect a house damaged by fire caused after a light plane crashed into a residential area in Tokyo on July 26, 2015. The light single-engine plane crashed into a residential area in Tokyo, setting fire to several houses and reportedly killing three people. JAPAN OUT -- AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS (Photo credit should read JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images) VENICE, CA - MARCH 05: A general view at the Penmar Golf Course after a single-engine plane piloted by actor Harrison Ford crashed on March 5, 2015 in Venice, California. Ford was reportedly taken to a nearby hospital in fair to moderate condition. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) Iranian security forces react next to the remains of a plane as they secure the scene of a crash near Tehran's Mehrabad airport on August 10, 2014. A civilian airliner crashed on take-off near the Mehrabad airport in the capital, Iranian news agencies said, with reports that almost 50 people were killed. AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) GAITHERSBURG, MD - DEC 08: Three people were killed in this house after it caught fire due to a plane that crashed just yards away. A plane crashed into houses on Drop Forge Lane in Gaithersburg, Maryland today. Three persons were killed in the plane and 3 persons were killed in one of the homes. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Indonesian rescuers search through wreckage of the Trigana Air ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop plane at the crash site in the mountainous area of Oksibil on August 18, 2015. A plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia was found on August 18 'completely destroyed' with the bodies of all 54 passengers and crew strewn amid the wreckage in a fire-blackened jungle clearing, officials said. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Up Next See Gallery Discover More Like This HIDE CAPTION SHOW CAPTION of SEE ALL BACK TO SLIDE

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