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PKK claims Turkey carried out chemical attacks against its fighters, Ankara denies
2022-10-23
[Rudaw] Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed multiple times that the Ottoman Turkish forces have conducted chemical attacks against its fighters in the Kurdistan Region’s mountainous areas since April. Ottoman Turkish authorities denied this on Friday, saying their army follows international laws.

The Ottoman Turkish army has carried out several military operations against the PKK, an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, in the Kurdistan Region in recent years, with the latest one being launched in April. Ankara sees the PKK as a terrorist organization. The Kurdish group has recently published several videos which purportedly show Ottoman Turkish soldiers targeting its fighters with chemical substances.

On Tuesday, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) published footage which it claimed showed Ottoman Turkish soldiers putting chemical substances into a cave in Duhok province’s Warkhal area through a tube. The news outlet added that a couple of PKK fighters, who were in the cave, have been affected by the substances - suffering from memory loss and breakdown of nerves.

The PKK said a day earlier that Turkey had used banned bombs and chemical substances for at least 2,476 times since April. On Tuesday, the PKK also published the identities of 17 of its fighters whom it claimed had been killed in the alleged chemical attacks by Turkey.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has taken the issue to the Ottoman Turkish parliament, asking a number of questions to Ottoman Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, including whether an investigation has been launched into the claims.

The Ottoman Turkish defence ministry on Thursday deemed the claims that its soldiers used chemical substances against the PKK "completely baseless and untrue."

Ottoman Turkish "Armed Forces do not use ammunition prohibited by international law and agreements. This type of ammunition is not in the inventory of the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces," the ministry said.

While returning from his trip from Azerbaijan on Friday, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
told news hounds on the plane that the Ottoman Turkish army has not had "any faults like usage of chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems...
until now." He called the allegations "slanders," reported state media.

Ottoman Turkish authorities have launched investigations against the allegations, threatening to take legal action against those who promote them.

PKK supporters have held protests in several countries against the alleged chemical attacks by Turkey, with demonstrators attacking the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
office in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava) on Wednesday.

The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella group which includes the PKK, called on Kurds on Saturday to speak up against the alleged chemical attacks.

"We call on everyone who has a conscience, who is on the side of life, to raise their voices and take action against this crime against humanity and crimes of war," read a statement by KCK’s health committee, reported by the ANF.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Lets see,
Option 1: the Turks dropped a bunch of nth-hand obtained chem shells on PKK positions, which isn't that unfeasible from a logistics point of view as a LOT of world's black market crap end up around Anatolia but the lack of actual offensive NBC warfare structure / training or chem agent inventory in Turk Army & AF makes this much less feasible

OR The option 2, Turk Arty hit "something" that were in these locations (remember the above mentioned black market remark? yea various other Kurdish sub-groups are generally the middlemen carrying the stuff overland.)

Can't really call it one way or another as Erdogan and his "genius" troubleshooters are also involved.
Expect chem attacks in Turkiye in the coming months before the local 2023 elections, is all I can be certain of.
Posted by: Nomad   2022-10-23 14:02  

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