ISTANBUL: The Turkish interior minister announced on Friday that three more Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have surrendered to the Turkish security authorities.
According to Ali Yerlikaya on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, the terrorists were conducting their operations in northern Iraq and Syria under the framework of the PKK terrorist organization. He stated that over the last two months, 32 terrorists have surrendered to Turkish security forces.
The PKK, also known as Kongra-Gel, is a militant Marxist-Leninist Kurdish separatist group established in 1978 with the goal of creating a unified, independent Kurdistan. It aims to gain control of Kurdish areas of Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey to advance Kurdish rights and recognition. The group’s stated goal is to establish a confederation of semiautonomous Kurdish regions.
The PKK, which has been declared a terrorist organization by Turkiye, the US, and the EU, has been involved in a more than 35-year terror campaign against Turkiye and has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including children, infants, and women. —AA/APP
