Turkey scrambled fighter planes late Wednesday, October 10 to force a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to Damascus to land in Ankara due to suspicions the plane was carrying weapons, the latest in a series of episodes that have dramatically heightened tensions between the neighbors, The Wall Street Journal reported. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed that the plane was being searched at Ankara’s airport and said Turkey had banned its own civilian aircraft from Syrian airspace effective immediately amid fears of mounting insecurity. “We are determined to control weapons transfers to a regime that carries out such brutal massacres against civilians,” he said. Turkish television channels offered mixed reports of what the airliner’s cargo contained. NTV reported that Turkish officials had seized “material deemed to be parts of missiles,” while CNN Turk reported the detection of “military communications devices.”