Turkish General Staff said on Thursday that it had retrieved the bodies of two pilots of Turkish jet shot down by Syria.
A statement posted on the website of the General Staff said that it recovered them from the seabed 8.6 nautical miles from the Syrian coast.
The statement said the bodies were found at a depth of 1,260 metres near the wreckage of the jet which had broken up into pieces. It said the bodies were flown to the eastern city of Malatya where the jet had taken off from on June 22.
The Turkish RF4 military reconnaissance plane was shot down by Syria on June 22 while on an unarmed training and test mission in international airspace after unintentionally strayed into Syrian airspace.
The incident has drawn widespread international condemnation amid the continuing violence in Syria.
Turkey has said the Syrian act constituted "a clear and a grave violation of international law" and that Ankara would take "every necessary measure."
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said rules of military engagement of the Turkish Armed Forces had been revised in the face of the incident, adding, "any Syrian military element approaching the Turkish border from Syria will be considered as a military threat and dealt with accordingly."