Turkey: Kurdish rebels may have downed chopper last week
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Turkish military says Kurdish rebels may have downed one of its helicopters during combat last week.
The army initially reported that during fighting with Kurdish rebels on May 13 a helicopter had crashed for technical reasons.
But the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, later circulated video it said showed the helicopter being downed by one of its fighters.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The weapon used, according to some observers, appears to have been a MANPAD, or shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile.
The Turkish army said Thursday "it may have been downed as a result of fire from terrorist elements from a yet unknown type of surface-to-air, possibly an air-defense missile."
Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels have been locked in conflict since the collapse of a cease-fire last summer.