Military investigation ongoing about cooperation claims with PKK
The military is investigating allegations that two high-level soldiers cooperated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disrupt unmanned surveillance planes and stop them from determining PKK targets and hitting them, said Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül in an interview with daily Taraf on Saturday.
The allegations were first published by daily Bugün on Thursday. The daily reported that Lt. Fırat Ç. called from his cell phone Lt. Col. Selim Selçuk Ç., both pilots, and said, “Our men [PKK members] gave many casualties. Either crash Herons or change their coordinates.” “We will deal with it,” Selçuk Ç. was alleged to say. The conversation was tapped by the National Intelligence Organization, or MİT.