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PKK confirms top commander's death by Turkish airstrike in Kurdistan Region
2020-04-07
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Monday confirmed the death of one of its top commanders in a Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq some eight months ago.

Muslih Ike - alias Tekoser Gever - was killed by the strike in the Qandil mountains of the Kurdistan Region on August 20, according to a PKK statement published by the pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency (ANF) on Monday.

"He fell martyr following a Ottoman Turkish air attack on Medya Defense Areas [PKK headquarters] on 20 August 2019," read the statement.

The statement paid tribute to 47-year-old Gever as an architect of the PKK's "historical resistance" against increasing Ottoman Turkish "occupation" in the Kurdish areas of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 and in the Kurdistan Region.

Ottoman Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency (AA) reported Gever’s death on November 4, but did not specify when he was killed. On the same day, AA and other Ottoman Turkish media outlets published footage purportedly showing the moment Gever was targeted by the Ottoman Turkish strike.

Gever, a fixture on the Ottoman Turkish interior ministry's most wanted list, rose through the ranks of the PKK after joining the group as a 20-year-old in 1993.

He previously led the group's forces in Makhmour, a town in territory disputed by the governments of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, when Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) controlled swaths of Iraqi and Syrian land. He then returned to the Qandil mountain range along the Turkey-Iraq-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
border that has served as the PKK's headquarters for around three decades.

It is unclear why the group chose to announce Gever's death so long after the lethal strike.
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