Russian intelligence pressured the PKK terrorist organization and its political offshoot in Syria, the PYD, to spread false reports that Turkey supplied opposition forces fighting against the Assad regime with weapons, including chemical ones, according to a report in Haber Turk daily.
The report indicates that Turkish intelligence learned, by listening to a phone conversation between an administrator of the PKK's Syria branch and another member, that Russia would be pleased if the misinformation would spread.
In exchange, PYD leader Saleh Muslim would earn the opportunity to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to the daily, Muslim's comments during his tours of European capitals that Turkey had supplied the Syrian opposition with chemical weapons confirm the pressure placed on the groups.
While the misinformation was not published on non-affiliated sites, the “lekolin” website close to the PKK published that Turkey had given chemical weapons to the Al Nusra Front and Al Qaeda.
The Turkish Ministry of Interior denied the reports, dismissing them as false.
