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| Tango01 | 25 Apr 2016 3:36 p.m. PST |
…State Fighters Since January. "A Turkish military source claimed that Turkey's airstrikes and artillery bombardments have killed more than 860 members of the Islamic State (ISIS) this year. Turkey's official Anadolu Agency quoted an unidentified source as saying that since January 9, Turkey has killed 370 ISIS members using artillery fire and a further 492 using airstrikes. Additionally, it reportedly bombed ISIS headquarters and weapon depots. The source claimed that Turkey has opened fire on ISIS a total of 5,330 times since January. ISIS rocket fire on Turkey's frontier province of Kilis with Syria has killed 17 civilians since January and wounded many more. Turkey has been responding to these attacks primarily with artillery, likely out of fear that their jet fighters will get shot down by the Russian military in Syria if they venture too far into Syrian airspace…"
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| cwlinsj | 25 Apr 2016 3:50 p.m. PST |
If we believe the Turks' ISIS bodycount, and we know that ISIS likes to hide among non-combattants, then the bodycount of innocents is likely 5-10x that number. …and by ISIS, they mean Kurds. |
troopwo  | 25 Apr 2016 4:28 p.m. PST |
Exactly what I was thinking. |
 Condotta | 25 Apr 2016 7:30 p.m. PST |
Hmmmm, wonder how they are confirming these body counts. May be true, but since they won't get count from ISIS/Kurds, and they have no one on ground to get count, maybe they are using the SWAG method (Scientific Wild A@@ Guess). |
 Legion 4  | 26 Apr 2016 2:16 p.m. PST |
Yeah … I'm saying SWAG too … |
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