Turkish commander accuses US of sabotage
Distrust between the United States and Turkey is at a new low as an anonymous Turkish commander claims that US-manufactured and supplied bombs dropped on Kurdish separatist targets were duds.
Turkish claims of American mischief have grown louder and ever more outlandish since last summer’s failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with many of his supporters agreeing that the “real” mastermind is Washington.
But a Turkish gendarmerie commander clearly deserves credit for carrying these claims to virgin terrain. In a column published in the pro-secular Sozcu today, the commander, whose name was withheld, illustrated the new lows to which distrust between the two NATO allies has sunk, asserting that US-manufactured bombs dropped by the Turkish air force on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets were duds.
