Articles About Terrorist Activities

Three outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants were caught with 10 kilograms of heroin in southern Cyprus on Tuesday, the Anatolia news agency reported. Following a police operation, Mehmet K., the head of PKK operations in Greek Cyprus, escaped to Greece with the terrorist organization’s money, the Anatolia noted. 
The operation came after the US labeled senior PKK members Murat Karayılan, Ali Rıza Altun and Zübeyir Aydar significant foreign narcotics traffickers. Mehmet K. was reportedly called to the PKK headquarters to give an account but, afraid of being killed, allegedly fled to Greece with 150,000 euros on his person. Read the rest of this entry »

Five members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in an armed clash with Turkish security forces late on Monday in eastern Bingöl province. 
The clashes in a remote region came days after a group of outlawed PKK members surrendered after returning from neighboring Iraq to support Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reform process. The clash was one of the biggest skirmishes since the government announced the Kurdish initiative in July. Read the rest of this entry »

The Turkish parliament speaker said on Tuesday that 870 members of terrorist organization have applied to benefit from the repentance law in the last four years. 
Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin said that the 34 members of terrorist organization PKK (from Makhmour refugee camp and Qandil Mountain) were not the first ones who applied for this law. “None of them (who applied earlier) caused such an ugly picture,” Şahin said.

He said 870 PKK members have applied to benefit from the repentance law between June 1, 2005 and June 15, 2009. Şahin said, “636 of them did not get any penalty. Sentences of 30 were reduced. Demands of 124 were rejected and investigations have been under way for 78 PKK members.” Read the rest of this entry »

Five Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, members were killed when they clashed with military forces in the eastern province of Bingöl.

According to the Anatolia news agency, the members of the military were patrolling the area late Monday when they encountered a group of PKK members. They called upon the PKK members to “surrender,” and in response the group opened gunfire.

The incident also left one member of the security forces wounded; the soldier was airlifted to a military hospital in Elazığ. Two villagers taking care of their beehives were also wounded, reported Agence Presse-France.

Source: Hurriyet Daily News
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=pkk-incident-in-bingol-2009-10-27

French police have detained nine members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, for racketeering to collect money from Kurds living in France, security officials said.

French counter-terror teams have also seized large amounts of cash in the houses of the detained PKK members in the large-scale operation conducted in the cities of Le Luc and Vidauban.

French security authorities have detained 40 PKK members since last June. Read the rest of this entry »

Twenty-three students were detained Monday in a police raid in the eastern city of Erzincan.

Newly registered at Erzincan University, the students were detained for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Among the 23 detained students, four were female. Police received a tip off that the 23 students were trying to enlist with the PKK and based on that information the police carried out simultaneous raids and detained them. Read the rest of this entry »

The United States is targeting three members of a Kurdish terrorist group with financial sanctions after designating them narcotics traffickers.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced the move Wednesday against Murat Karayilan, a Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, commander in northern Iraq, and members Ali Riza Altun and Zubayir Aydar.

The designation would freeze any assets the three held in the United States and prohibits U.S. citizens from doing business with them. Read the rest of this entry »