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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc Dept: The announcement came Monday on the eve of a meeting by NATO's governing body to discuss the incident. Despite deep frustration among many NATO countries over the conflict in Syria, where the opposition says President Bashar Assad's crackdown on an increasingly armed popular uprising has killed 14,000 people, it's highly unlikely the military alliance will take armed action against the Arab state, according to CBC. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc also said for the first time that Syrian forces had opened ground fire on a CASA search and rescue plane shortly after the downing, but did not say if that plane was hit and turkey has said it would push NATO to consider Syria's downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance. The unarmed RF-4E reconnaissance jet was shot down 1.6 kilometres inside international airspace on Friday, and two Turkish pilots are still missing, the Turkish government says. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.