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Friday, May 03, 2013

AKP Report on Uludere Airstrike Condemned as 'Whitewash' - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

AKP Report on Uludere Airstrike
Condemned as 'Whitewash'

By: Amberin Zaman for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on May 2.

On Dec. 28, 2011, Turkish warplanes rained bombs on a group of Kurdish smugglers as they were preparing to cross into Turkey from Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Some 34 men were killed along with dozens of pack mules. Most of the victims were teenagers. The youngest was 12. Many were from the same extended family. And all came from a pair of remote border villages in the township of Uludere.

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