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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Turkey leases Israeli spy plane to combat PKK

Israeli squad to operate the unmanned aerial vehicle to be stationed in Batman

The Turkish military has leased an Israeli-made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mainly to combat increasing terror attacks in the country's southeast.

The lease period is one year.The UAV, manufactured by Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) will be delivered to Ankara next week.

It will be stationed in Batman and operated by an Israeli squad, defense officials in Ankara said. Turkish military personnel will only perform the sensor operation duty for the UAV.

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