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Turkish military helicopter shot down near Syria: President Erdogan
[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish President 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...
 says one of the country’s military helicopters has been shot down near the border with Syria.

Erdogan said Saturday that the helicopter was participating in the Ottoman Turkish military offensive in northern Syria when it was shot down while flying over an area in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
's Hatay province.

He said Turkey would respond harshly to the attack and that the "perpetrators" would pay a "heavy price" for the downing that took place around noon local time and in the southern border of Hatay.

Later, Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told the local media that two Ottoman Turkish servicemen had been killed in the incident. "At this stage, we can say that one out of two helicopters was downed. We have two deaders."

Ottoman Turkish military later said nine more soldiers were killed in separate incidents but did not give details. Another 11 soldiers were maimed in the bloodiest day in Ankara's offensive against the Kurdish militias in northern Syria.

For nearly a month, Turkey has been engaged in a massive military operation in northwestern Syria with an alleged aim of neutralizing a threat by Kurds from the city of Afrin and surrounding areas in the Syrian province of Aleppo.

In his televised statement, Erdogan did not blame the Kurds or any other party for the downing of the helicopter.

A Kurdish militia front man, identified as Mustafa Bali, grabbed credit for the attack, saying the helicopter was downed by fighters in Raju, northwestern Afrin.


Posted by: Fred 2018-02-11
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