On the phone with the Nato press office, all the organisation would say is that they are in contact with Turkish authorities regarding the incident.

Meanwhile, in a separate event, Russian journalists have been injured in Syria, according to Russia's defence ministry.

The ministry said in a statement this morning that the three journalists had been travelling to Tuesday the village of al-Dagmashliya in the mostly government-controlled province of Latakia when a missile landed near their car. The injured were reportedly taken to a hospital in the province's Russian military base.

"Three Russian journalists were lightly injured, one of them suffered concussion," said the statement. "Currently the whole group of Russian journalists has returned to the Hmeimim air base, where the wounded are getting medical care."