Articles About Terrorist Activities

Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) blocked the southeastern Tunceli-Erzincan highway Aug. 29 at around 7:30 p.m. and torched four trucks, one of them a fuel tanker.

A 10-member group from the PKK blocked the road at its 15th kilometer near the Söğütlüçeşme area, stopping vehicles and checking passengers’ and drivers’ identification cards. Then they gathered all the passengers and drivers in one spot and voiced organizational propaganda. While they allowed small vehicles to pass, the PKK group held four vehicles including a fuel tanker and set them on fire on the road before fleeing. Read the rest of this entry »

Nobel Peace Prize winner retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has prayed for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to Kurdish politicians.

“The South African experience can be a model for Turkey’s possible negotiations on the Kurdish issue,” Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Deputy Nazmi Gür, who visited Tutu yesterday in Johannesburg, quoted the Nobel laureate as saying, adding that Tutu “prayed for freedom of Öcalan and the peoples of the Middle East as well.” Read the rest of this entry »

French security forces detained five militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in two covert operations on Aug. 24 and 25, according to reports.
 
The PKK militants were allegedly plotting to murder a Kurdish person of Turkish citizenship living in the Mediterranean city of Marseilles, Kayhan Karaca of broadcaster NTV reported today.
 
French daily Le Monde reported that two separate operations, dubbed “Kurdish showdown” and “PKK finances,” were undertaken against the PKK in secret. The PKK was allegedly planning to kill a Kurdish person because he refused to pay a “revolution tax,” according to Agence France-Presse. The identities of the militants and their target were not revealed by authorities. 
 
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An explosion hit the Turkish-Iraqi pipeline overnight Sunday, causing a fire and stopping oil flow to Turkey, local security sources told AFP on Monday.
 
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear but suspicions are running high that Kurdish militants, who have in the past targeted the pipeline, or oil smugglers may have sabotaged it.

An unidentified female body was found near the blast site the next morning with a backpack and an automatic gun.  The body was taken immediately to Sinopi State Hospital near by.

The fire started in the Silopi and Cizre districts of Şırnak province following the blast on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, said the security sources, adding that firefighters were trying to put out the flames.

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Suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked the Omurlu second border battalion today in the eastern province of Hakkari for the third time in 48 hours, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The militants targeted the facility with heavy weapons, the reports said. A clash erupted after Turkish soldiers returned fire.

An extensive operation supported by the Air Force has been launched to capture the militants.

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Five Turkish soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in a landmine attack followed by an ambush by suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the eastern Hakkari province yesterday. Sixteen PKK militants were killed in the clashes that followed the attack.
 
Four landmines were detonated by PKK militants as a Turkish military convoy drove on a road between Hakkari’s Bağlar and Zorgeçit villages, located roughly 20 kilometers away from the center of the province’s Şemdinli district.
 
PKK militants opened fire on the convoy after the blasts, prompting a firefight between the soldiers and militants. Five soldiers were killed and seven were injured in the attack.
 
Two Cobra gunships and numerous armored vehicles were dispatched from Hakkari’s Yüksekova district to reinforce the troops who were ambushed. Sixteen PKK militants were killed in the ensuing clashes.
 
Esat Canan, a deputy from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), was near the area where the clashes erupted and wrote on his Twitter account that they “were not permitted to leave the region.”

The commander of Turkey’s Land Forces, Gen. Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu, went to Hakkari in the wake of the attack and paid a visit to Gov. Orhan Alimoğlu today. “The Turkish Armed Forces will continue to carry out its mission to ensure the safety of the region,” Kıvrıkoğlu said. Read the rest of this entry »

Two specialist sergeants were killed and one soldier was wounded when a landmine exploded near their military vehicle in the eastern province of Hakkari today, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The landmine on a road near the province’s Kırköy village was detonated remotely by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants as the vehicle was passing, according to reports.

The vehicle fell into Zap Creek due to the blast.   Read the rest of this entry »

A car laden with explosives was detonated yesterday in the eastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, killing at least nine people and wounding 68.

Turkish security forces have detained four people who are suspected of involvement in the bombing in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa’s Siverek district today.

Assailants remotely detonated the explosives at 7:38 p.m. after leaving the car at a bus stop 30 meters from the Karşıyaka Police Station in the province’s Şehitkamil district.
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Suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) staged simultaneous attacks last night on a police station and a special security branch office in the southeastern province of Şırnak, injuring one policeman, Anatolian news agency reported.

The wounded officer was taken to Şırnak State Hospital while an operation was launched to apprehend the militants, who used heavy weapons in the attack.

Meanwhile, a specialist sergeant was wounded yesterday when PKK fighters remotely detonated a landmine in the eastern province of Hakkari, Doğan news agency reported.

The blast occurred at around 11.00 a.m. in the province’s Yüksekova district as security forces were conducting an operation to locate possible mines on a road to nearby Dağlıca.
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Sergeant Hasan Furkan Ozmen died at hospital after getting injured in the terrorist attack on military vehicle in the western province of Izmir.

Ozmen, who has been in coma in intensive care unit at Ege Hospital since the attack was staged, died on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »