General Staff: Helicopter Thought to Crash Due to Malfunction Shot Down

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The General Staff has announced that the helicopter which was earlier declared to crash due to technical malfunction was shot down.

Eight soldiers and six Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members had lost their lives in the conflict that erupted in Turkey’s southeastern Çukurca district of Hakkari province on May 13 and that the General Staff had declared that two of the soldiers died in the helicopter crash that occurred due to fatal technical malfunction.

On the other hand, PKK had stated that it shot down the helicopter and released a footage of a PKK member firing a heat seeking missile.

The statement issued by the General Staff said that “they have reached the conclusion that the helicopter was probably shot down by an unidentified air defense weapon that could be a ground launched cruise missile”.