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The Grand Turk
Turkish man wanted by Russia for killing pilot spotted at Istanbul funeral
2016-01-29
Darwin is waiting eagerly for this one.
[Rudaw] The Turkish man who became the target of Moscow's manhunt, after boasting he had bumped off a Russian fighter pilot parachuting from his crashing plane on the Turkish-Syrian border, was spotted at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul on Wednesday.

Alparslan Celik told news hounds he did not have a fixed abode and would return to Syria after the funeral, where he would continue to fight to defend Turkmen villages being bombed by the regime, according to the Hurriyet Daily News.

"I am here and there. I am going and returning. And now, I came for the funeral ceremony and I will go again," said Celik, the son of a former district mayor from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), at the funeral of Ibrahim Kucuk, a district head of the MHP who was killed in an air bombardment on a Turkmen village in Syria.

Celik has been the target of a Russian manhunt since after November 24, when a Turkish jet shot down a Russian warplane on Turkey's border with Syria, where the Russians have thrown in their air force behind the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
. Celik proudly boasted on video after the incident that he had bumped off Oleg Peshkov, the surviving pilot who had parachuted from his jet after being hit by Turkish jets. Peshkov's plane was apparently on a bombing run against Celik and his Turkmen comrades who are fighting the Syrian regime, which Russia intervened to support. Peshkov said he had seen the pilot bombing the village.

"There is no place for a person who has bombed civilian Turkmens every day in my conscious," said Celik. "Reprisal is the most natural right. There is life in reprisal," he added. -
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  This is what the GoPro was designed for.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-01-29 23:35  

#1  This could make a good reality TV show. Tune in next week!
Posted by: SteveS   2016-01-29 10:31  

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