土耳其找到被擊落飛機上飛行員的遺體
Turkey said it found the bodies of two pilots shot downby Syria during a contested flight, an announcement that is likely to lead to renewed finger-pointing over an event that has pushed the neighbors' relations to a new low.
Reuters週三，一架土耳其F-16戰機準備從因吉爾利克空軍基地起飛。土耳其說，已找到被敘利亞擊落那架飛機上兩名飛行員的遺體，土敘兩國對於這架飛機是在何種情況下被擊落的有不同說法。這個消息可能導致兩國就促使雙邊關係陷入新低谷的土耳其飛機被擊落事件再次相互指責。
The military General Staff in Ankara said it was working to remove the pilots' bodies from the Mediterranean Sea. The military statement on Wednesday didn't offer additional details on where the bodies were found.
位於安卡拉的土耳其總參謀部說，正在將飛行員遺體從地中海運回國內。週三發佈的這則軍方聲明沒有就遺體發現地點透露更多詳情。But a Turkish official later said that wreckage of the plane had been located in the sea at a depth of 1,285 meters, or about three-quarters of a mile deep.
但一名土耳其官員當天晚些時候說，失事飛機殘骸是在海面以下1,285米的地方發現的。
The finding is likely to renew attention on where and how the Turkish RF4 surveillance jet was downed on June 22, an event that raised tensions along Turkey's 565-mile border with Syria.
這一發現可能會讓外界再次關注6月22日那天土耳其這架RF4偵察機是在何地以及怎樣被擊落的。此事導致土耳其與敘利亞之間565英里(約合900公里)長邊境地區的局勢更趨緊張。Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said Syrian forces hit the plane over territorial waters with antiaircraft gunfire. Turkey's government angrily denied a recent Wall Street Journal article citing U.S. officials who said the plane was most likely downed with shore-based antiaircraft guns over Syrian waters.
敘利亞總統阿薩德(Bashar al-Assad)說，敘利亞空軍是用高射炮將處於敘利亞領海上方的那架偵察機擊落的。《華爾街日報》前不久一篇文章援引美國官員的話說，這架飛機很有可能是飛行在敘利亞領海上空時被部署在海岸上的高射炮所擊落。土耳其政府對此氣憤地予以否認。Turkey, by contrast, has said the plane was hit 13 miles off the Syrian coast, about a mile beyond the country's 12-mile boundary, before crashing 8.5 miles off Syria. In accordance with its belief about where the jet went down, Turkey has been searching for wreckage at depths of more than 1,200 meters, according to a statement by Turkey's armed forces.
按照土耳其的說法，這架飛機是在距敘利亞海岸13英里(約21公里)的地方被擊中的，當時該飛機處在敘利亞12英里(約19公里)領海之外約1英里的地方，墜毀地點距敘利亞海岸8.5英里(約13.7公里)。土耳其武裝部隊發表的聲明顯示，土耳其一直在海平面以下1,200多米的地方尋找飛機殘骸，這與該國認爲的飛機失事地點相吻合。"That the plane was found where we said it would be shows that it was struck in international airspace," the Turkish official said.
這位土耳其官員說，飛機是在我們說的地方找到的，這表明它是在國際空域被擊中的。Pentagon officials said they hadn't yet seen details of where the bodies were recovered. One senior U.S. official said the U.S. couldn't yet say "one way or the other" if the information bolstered Turkey's account. "I have not seen any indication we can validate their claim," the U.S. official said.
美國五角大樓的官員說，他們還沒看到關於發現飛行員遺體地點的具體信息。美國一位高級官員說，美國還不能對目前所獲得的信息是否支持土耳其方面的說法下定論。這位官員說，我還沒有看到任何可證實他們說法的跡象。
