2011 Turkish airstrike ‘huge mistake’

May 26th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

On December 29, 2011, 35 people were killed in a Turkish airstrike near a Kurdish village in the Uludere district of the Sirnak Province close to the border with Iraq. The Turkish military primarily said it had targeted suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). However, Turkish officials later acknowledged that “civilians” were killed during the attack.

Gul said Turkey was “deeply saddened” by the attack.

“All people there should know that it was a huge mistake,” the Turkish president told TRT Haber television program during a visit to San Francisco on May 25.

He also stated that a full investigation has been conducted into the issue.

Gul made the comments a few days after Mahmut Tanal, a member of the main Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), filed a lawsuit on May 21 against Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Chief of the General Staff General Necdet Ozel for the 2011 airstrike.

“All military commands are carried out in a chain. The chief of the general staff is at the top of this chain and he takes consent from the prime minister. For this reason, the chief of the general staff and the prime minister are responsible for this massacre,” Tanal said in his complaint.

“All allegations should be examined and those who are found guilty should be charged.”

Tanal also stated in his complaint that because the Turkish president is the army’s commander-in-chief under the constitution, he also bore responsibility for the strike.

HSN/PKH