Turkey Officials say Israel Aiding Kurdish Rebel Group

Turkish intelligence officials have accused Israel of aiding the Kurdish rebel group PKK, claiming that Israeli drones gathered data that assisted the group in establishing training sites on the Turkey-Syria border.

According to a report drafted by Turkish intelligence officials and obtained by Turkish daily Today's Zaman, PKK training bases "[w]ere set up in areas that are known to be weakspots for the Turkish military, after they obtained intelligence collected by the drones."

The intelligence report also claimed that a senior PKK member visited Israel several times in recent years.