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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

How I failed to guess!

How I failed to guess!

By Burak Bekdil

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Burak Bekdil

In less than a year, three airborne mysteries have clouded Turkey’s political skies. On Dec. 28, 2011, Turkish fighter jets bombed - based on intelligence gathered from unspecified sources - a flock of men who the military headquarters thought were Kurdish terrorists. They were Kurdish, but just smugglers, and 35 people - mostly teenagers – died in the incident. We still don’t know what caused this “mis-intelligence and the operation that followed.” No one has been brought to court and the Uludere affair remains a mystery.

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