Russia's military denies responsibility for airstrikes that killed dozens of Turkish soldiers in Syrian province of Idlib.
The strike on Thursday came after the rebels retook the key town of Saraqeb.
There had quickly been speculation that the strikes that killed the Turkish troops could have been carried out by Russian warplanes. Russia has been conducting the majority of airstrikes in the area in recent days, despite Turkey's statement that the planes had belonged to the Syrian government. Turkey's president Tayyip Recep Erdogan convened an emergency meeting of his security council in response to the Turkish soldiers' deaths. Following the meeting, his top spokesman said that Turkey would retaliate against the Syrian government and announced that it has been"targeting all regime positions from the ground and the air."
NATO announced that it would hold an emergency council meeting on the situation in Syria after Turkey triggered the Article 4 mechanism of the alliance's charter, which permits members to seek consultations when their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened.NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke with Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu by phone, the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
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