Kuridish militant group, the PKK, has released a video showing the true cause of Turkish helicopter crash: MANPAD, or man-portable air-defense system. The Cobra helicopter was dispatched on Friday following an attack by militants which killed six Turkish soldiers. The crash had previously accounted to technical errors. The warfare tactics between Kurds and Turks are once again escalating since the breakdown of a two-year truce last summer.
"... the use of a surface-to-air missile — which arms experts said is likely a Russian-made 9K38 Igla — is a new and troubling development. It's unclear where the militants, who maintain bases in both Turkey and Iraq, would have obtained the weapon system."
Andrew Winter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/14/kurdish-militants-just-challenged-turkish-air-power-in-a-major-way/
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