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(NSFW) Guided Missile Makes Direct Hit On Turkish Soldiers
Published 3 years ago
Footage filmed on May 31, 2021, by the HPG armed wing of the Kurdish PKK separatist group shows an anti tank guided missile operation in the Avasin region of northern Iraq, in which the ATGM makes a direct hit on a Turkish fighter silhouetted on a hilltop.
From the footage we can see at least six militants grouped together near a hilltop defensive position. They hear the incoming guided missile and attempt to take cover, but it's too late. The wire-guided munition squarely strikes one, and possibly even two of the fighters.
While the ATGM is designed to take out armored vehicles and is ordinarily much less effective against troops in the open, one cannot argue with the effectiveness of a direct hit. ATGMs are expensive, and apparently the Kurdish guerrillas decided that taking out two enemy infantrymen was worth the expenditure of the weapon.
The PKK/HPG are fighting for autonomy from oppressive Turkish governance of ethnic Kurdish people and lands within and outside of Turkey's political borders. Although initially driven by communist ideologies, the PKK have shifted to a "democratic confederalism" in which state and authoritarian institutions are abolished and the means of production and democratic political structure are all managed by decentralized unions, councils, and associations at the local level.
