QANDIL,— A Turkish plane crashed near Gara Mountain in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region where members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) captured pieces of the wrecked plane.

A spokesman from the PKK military wing (HPG), Bakhtyar Dogan, told NRT on Wednesday a Turkish jet crashed on Tuesday night between the villages of Gize and Biye in the district of Amedi, 90 km northeast of Duhok.

Turkish warplanes shelled the area following the crash of the jet, the HPG spokesman added. The shelling destroyed the crashed jet and the type and model of the plane is not clear.

Neither the Turkish army nor the Turkish government has yet confirmed the crash of the plane.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has not commented on the crashed Turkish military plane either.

Firat News Agency reported on the wreckage of a plane, which was found in Gara Mountain, where witnesses said the plane caught fire before crashing.

Turkish warplanes frequently shell areas in the mountains of the Kurdistan Region, where they believe PKK positions to be located.

Military jets have carried out strikes inside Iraq’s Kurdistan Region targeting suspected PKK bases after the ceasefire between the military and the guerrilla group collapsed in July 2015.

The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 78-million population. A large Kurdish community in Turkey and worldwide openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

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