Articles About Terrorist Activities

This month, the U.S. Treasury Department designated three individuals as narcotics traffickers acting on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), or Kongra-Gel. That the PKK is deeply engaged in a wide array of criminal activities should not be surprising to those familiar with the group. Focusing law enforcement and intelligence efforts on targeting and exposing such activities is an especially effective means of combating both the organization’s criminal and terrorist activities. Consider the case of Lebanese Hezbollah, which has been the target of several nations’ law enforcement agencies.

Exposure of the group’s transnational criminal activity — especially drug running — brought together a wide spectrum of countries to combat illegal activities that are coincidentally carried out by violent extremist groups. A similar focus on the PKK could have tremendous benefits of both an anti-crime and anti-terrorism nature. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkish security teams killed 15 terrorists in southeastern province of Sirnak, governor’s office said on Tuesday.

The statement said that security forces staged a large-scaled operation in Sirnak-Bestler region and found two hideouts belonging to terrorist organization. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkish police made around 100 arrests on Monday in a major new nationwide operation targeting union leaders and activists over their links to Kurdish rebels, television channels reported.

Police raided offices and homes in Istanbul, Ankara and Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, NTV and CNN-Turk reported. Raids also took place in six other cities.

The operation was part of a wider legal offensive against the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK), a union regarded by the authorities in Ankara as the political wing of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Read the rest of this entry »

Thirteen Kurdish rebels and one Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in clashes in southeastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported, quoting local officials.

One soldier was killed and six wounded overnight when rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) opened fire on an army unit near Cukurca, close to the Iraqi border, Hakkari provincial governor Muammer Turker told Anatolia.

“Our forces fired back and fighting went on for about an hour and a half. The terrorists then escaped under cover of darkness, while we recovered the bodies of four of them,” he added.

A second clash, also overnight, occurred in Ilica, Bingol province, where security forces stormed a house occupied by rebels, local authorities told Anatolia. Read the rest of this entry »

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury on Wednesday declared Zeyneddin Geleri, Cerkez Akbulut and Omer Boztepe residing in Moldova as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT) and individuals with connections to the terrorist organization PKK. Read the rest of this entry »