Syria warns against action over Turkish plane

Teams continue efforts to search for wreckage and two missing airmen - four days after Syria shot down a Turkish warplane over the Mediterranean.

Turkish officials said on Friday that a jet briefly went into Syrian airspace by mistake - before Syria shot the plane down after it had re-entered international air space.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan held a cabinet meeting in Ankara to discuss what Turkey says was an unprovoked attack.

A Turkish government spokesman said the downing of the jet will not go "unpunished."

Syria - said it shot down the plane in self-defense - and warned Turkey - and its NATO allies - against retaliation.

Syria's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Juhad Makdissi.

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) Syrian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Juhad Makdissi:

"We heard declarations by NATO saying that they do not have intentions of military intervention in Syria. If their meeting is for hostile reasons, Syrian land, air and water are sacred to the Syrian army."

Turkey has called for a NATO meeting on Tuesday - and says it will also go to the United Nations Security Council.

Sarah Irwin, Reuters.