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Senior PKK terrorist killed in anti-terror operation in eastern Turkey

Sunday, 17 December 2017 1:59 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 17 December 2017 3:47 PM ]

Slain PKK terrorist Murat Dag, better known by the nom de guerre Ferhat Yilmaz (Photo by Anadolu news agency)

Turkish security forces have killed a high-profile member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group during an anti-terrorism operation in the country’s eastern province of Tunceli.

The Provincial Governor’s Office, in a statement released on Sunday, announced that Murat Dag, better known by the nom de guerre Ferhat Yilmaz, was killed along with seven other terrorists during an offensive in the Pulumur district of the province, situated some 800 kilometers (497 miles) east of the capital Ankara.

The statement added that Dag was on the Turkish Interior Ministry’s list of wanted terrorists.

On November 14, Turkey’s Interior Ministry announced that Hülya Eroğlu, better known by the nom de guerre Gülbahar, was killed during an offensive in the Bestler-Dereler district of the province, situated some 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) east of the capital Ankara.

Slain PKK terrorist Hülya Eroğlu, better known by the nom de guerre Gülbahar

Eroğlu was a member of the so-called PKK executive committee, and on the red category of the terror blacklist.

Ankara has been engaged in a large-scale campaign against the PKK in its southern border region. The Turkish military has also been conducting offensives against the positions of the group in northern Iraq.

The operations began in the wake of a deadly bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc. More than 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

After the bombing, the PKK militants, who accused the government in Ankara of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the Turkish military operations.

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