Articles About Terrorist Activities

Thirty-one people including several mayors from the disbanded Democratic Society Party, or DTP, were detained early Thursday morning as part of an investigation related to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Many of those detained were former DTP deputies who remained in Parliament as independents after the closure of the party and had announced plans to join the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP.

The operation was launched by the chief public prosecutor’s office in Diyarbakır and took place in 11 provinces. Read the rest of this entry »

The Turkish military has killed nine Kurdish militants in the country’s Southeast, while another nine have surrendered to the authorities, media reports and officials said Thursday.

The militants, killed in fighting in the provinces of Mardin and Hakkari, included senior members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has led a bloody 25-year struggle in the region, unnamed sources told Anatolia news agency, without specifying when the operations took place. Read the rest of this entry »

Serap Eser, 17, who was severely injured in early November by a Molotov cocktail attack on a municipal bus and died at a hospital where she had been receiving treatment on Monday, was buried yesterday in a Küçükçekmece, İstanbul, cemetery. 
 
The attack took place on an unlit street in İstanbul’s Küçükçekmece district; Eser was heading home from a Student Selection Examination (ÖSS) course. Her face and body were badly burned and she was rushed to Bağcılar State Research and Teaching Hospital. Seven people suspected of being responsible for the Molotov cocktail attack were detained on Nov. 27 in an operation targeting members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The detainees are all reportedly around 18 years old. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven Turkish soldiers were killed Monday near the village of Sazak in Tokat province after their patrol was stormed by terrorists, broadcaster CNNTürk reported.

Four others were injured in the clash in the Black Sea province, and two were seriously hurt, CNNTürk reported. The injured soldiers were taken to area hospitals.

Rafet Erdem, the mayor of the nearby city of Reşadiye, said Tokat had not been the scene of a terrorist attack since 1997. Read the rest of this entry »

Clashes between security forces and locals that first erupted Monday in the eastern province of Ağrı continued on Wednesday.

The incidents began after groups in various cities gathered to celebrate the foundation of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the prison conditions of its convicted leader, Abdullah Öcalan.

A group in Ağrı’s provincial center erected barricades Tuesday night and clashed with police. Seven people were arrested as a result. Read the rest of this entry »

Violent clashes that started Monday in Turkey continued Tuesday morning in the eastern province of Hakkari.

Around 300 people gathered in the Yüksekova district center to celebrate the founding of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and protest the prison conditions of the PKK’s jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, the news site CNNTürk reported Tuesday.

Nazif Ataman, the head of the district office of the Democratic Society Party, or DTP, and other party officials called on the protesters to disperse and asked shop owners to open their stores in the district. The crowd refused to disperse and police warned the protesters. The protesters threw stones at the police, who responded with tear gas. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »