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High-level PKK leader Altun says he wasn’t in Qandil when Turkish jets struck
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[Rudaw] A prominent Kurdistan Workers (PKK) leader who was reported to have been severely maimed by Ottoman Turkish media in an Arclight airstrike on Mount Qandil in the Kurdistan Region, dismissed the claims on Friday, saying he was not present when the spot was targeted.
State-run outlets like Anadolu Agency reported on March 27 that on March 21 Ottoman Turkish jets using precise coordinates supplied by the country’s intelligence community "seriously injured Altun, who is close to PKK founding member Cemil Bayik and serves as the party’s foreign relations liaison.
Ibrahim Kalin, an advisor and spokesperson to the Ottoman Turkish president, also shared an Anadolu video of the operation that the media organization said was obtained from the Ottoman Turkish military.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-12 |
