Articles About Terrorist Activities

The local leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the southeastern province of Mardin was killed in a clash with security forces six months ago, it has been learned.

According to reports on PKK-linked Web sites, Ömer Müslüm, 40, a resident of Syria who operated under the codename “Rüstem,” was killed in May during clashes with security forces in Mardin.

The PKK claimed it had not released any information previously since it had not been able to recover the body and had no information about Müslüm, who took up arms 18 years ago and is believed to have been involved in many clashes.

The PKK launched its armed attacks in 1984; the conflict has claimed more than 40,000 lives to date.

Source: Hurriyet Daily News
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=local-pkk-leader-killed-in-clash-2009-11-24

Another group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, members has surrendered to Turkish authorities in the country’s Southeast, where the Turkish military has been fighting the outlawed group for 25 years, the Reuters news agency reported.

The eight PKK members traveled from camps in northern Iraq, against their leaders’ orders, to the southeastern city of Silopi and later to Diyarbakır, where a prosecutor was questioning them, according to the Reuters report. Read the rest of this entry »

Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected Turkey’s extradition request for a citizen it accused of murder and membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

“There are obstacles to the extradition of Cemil Kadir Aygan,” the court said in its ruling.

Aygan, a 51-year-old Turkish citizen, lives in Sweden but is known in Turkey under the name Aziz Turan.

Turkey requested his extradition in August 2008, claiming he was “suspected of a crime against the State’s unity for having killed author Musa Anter and injured Orhan Miroğlu with a firearm on September 20 1992, within the framework of the terrorist organization PKK’s activities,” the court said. Read the rest of this entry »