Turkey Captures PKK Anti-Material Rifle

Posted September 28, 2012 in Rifles by Steve Johnson with 9 Comments
Tags: PKK, rifle, rifles, Turkey

It did not take long for Turkey to capture at least one of the crude anti-material rifles that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgents were showing off in propaganda photos recently.

The ammunition looks to be steel cased. I don’t know of any steel cased .50 BMG ammunition so I believe the rifle must be chambered in either 12.7×108mm or 14.5×114mm.

[ Many thanks to Tarkan for the tip. ]

Steve Johnson

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