Turkey told the truth yesterday, when they said it wasn’t theirs.
[Rudaw] Erbil-based Kurdistan CT claimed early Thursday that the casualties of a helicopter crash in Duhok province the previous night were fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). An unidentified helicopter crashed in Duhok’s Chamanke subdistrict on Wednesday night, killing all seven people onboard. The vicinity of the area where the copter fell is known for frequent festivities between
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...and the PKK.
"Preliminary investigations revealed that the helicopter was of type Eurocopter AS350 and that several of the passengers that were killed were PKK fighters," the counterterrorism force stated.
The PKK, however, has yet to comment on the incident, while Turkey’s defense ministry was quick to deny reports that the fallen helicopter belonged to the
Further investigations into the incident are ongoing, according to the counterterrorism force.
Chamanke in Duhok province is located 15 kilometers from Mount Gara, a region where Ankara in Februrary 2021 launched an operation dubbed Claw-Eagle-2 targeting the PKK.
More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict.
An unidentified helicopter accompanying the one that crashed in Duhok fled to an unknown destination: Governor
[Shafaq News] A helicopter carrying members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had crashed in Duhok's district of Jamangi, killing all the passengers on board, Governor Ali Tatar said on Thursday.
In a presser earlier today, Tatar revealed that another helicopter was flying alongside the one that crashed yesterday, Wednesday.
The governor said the second helicopter was also carrying members of the same group but it managed to flee the scene.
... as though they had never been...
before the authorities' arrival.
Its destination is currently unknown, he said.