What exactly happened on September 6 when Israeli warplanes attacked (or not attacked) Syria remains murky.
Sratfor reported yesterday on the place where external fuel tanks, belonging to Israeli aircraft, were found: “The northwestern spit of Syrian territory near which the external fuel tanks were found is an odd place for the fuel tanks to be dropped, if credence is lent to one (or both) of the sites where the Syrians claim they shot at Israeli aircraft. The most likely explanation is that the planes used Turkish airspace as an egress route; it is the quickest route to the open water of the Mediterranean and a nice way to avoid the dense Syrian air defense network along the coast, but would probably involve Ankara's complicity. Furthermore -- though this fact likely has no relevance to the incident -- the U.S. air base at Incirlik is just 50 miles away.

The lack of an outright denial from the Israelis and Turkey's subsequent statements lend some credence to the occurrence of some airspace violation by the IAF. But even this is not certain -- and in all likelihood, the matter will remain largely obscure”