ANKARA (Sputnik) – The Turkish military helicopter that crashed on May 13 in the country’s southeast near the Iraqi border may have been downed by Kurdish militants from the Kurdish Workers’ Party, the Turkish General Staff said Thursday.
“On May 13, members of the separatist terrorist organization attacked a military base in the region of Cukurca in the Hakkari Province. An F-16 fighter jet was deployed to the region to destroy the terrorists, as well as two attack helicopters and drones. Possibly one of the helicopters was downed by an unidentified rocket launched from the ground from a terrorist position. An investigation into the incident is continuing,” the General Staff said.
