On June 22, 2012, an F-4 Turkish air force plane was shot down by Syrian air defenses. Two pilots were killed in the plane that crashed into the Mediterranean. Multiple investigations were carried out, but the prosecutor is investigating only a lawyer who is charged with "revealing state secrets" and "endangering the state’s military operations." How Syria’s shooting down a Turkish plane ends with an investigation targeting a lawyer in Turkey is an interesting saga that would make anyone ponder.
After the shooting down of the plane, there was a long debate both in Turkey and abroad whether the plane was shot down over Syrian territorial waters or in international airspace. Further questions remained, such as: What was the Turkish plane doing there? And how will Turkey respond? One month after the incident, Sedat Ergin of Hurriyet Daily patched together statements from the Turkish military command and pieced together, in detail, the circumstances of the incident. Ergin wrote: