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(NSFW) Kurds Destroy Turkish Hedgehog MRAP, Casualties Reported
Published 2 years ago
Kurdish militants of the Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE) carried out an anti tank guided missile (ATGM) attack on a Turkish armed forces Hedgehog "Kirpi" mine resistant armored personnel carrier (MRAP) which resulted in multiple casualties.
The HRE carried out a similar attack on the same day (22 Apr. 2022) on another Hedgehog, and according to reports 10 Turkish soldiers were killed. It isn't clear if those deaths were from only one of the attacks or a combined casualty report.
The Kurdish HRE operates against the Turkish military and Turkish-facilitated Islamist mercenary forces around Afrin and Idlib, Syria.
Turkish-backed jihadists have occupied the Afrin district since Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch incursion into Syria pushed out the Kurdish YPG forces and displaced approximately 300,000 Kurdish civilians.
Turkey filled the abandoned villages with Islamist fighters, including al Qaeda and ISIS, retreating from embattled areas like Eastern Ghouta that were being retaken by Russia and the Syrian Army. Turkey rearms and rebrands the jihadists as Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA) and uses them as proxy militia forces to destabilize Kurdish areas, pressure Assad, and have even deployed these mercenaries to Libya and Azerbaijan.
