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| The Grand Turk |
| Seven PKK militants surrender during operations in southeast |
| 2016-04-17 |
| Some six outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, along with a “neighborhood representative” allegedly assigned by PKK founder Cemil Bayık, have surrendered to security forces in the Yüksekova district of the southeastern province of Hakkari, security sources said on April 15. During a counter-terrorism operation against PKK militants, a sniper who was allegedly sent to the town by order of Bayık and proclaimed himself as the PKK’s representative of Yüksekova’s Güngör neighborhood, has surrendered to soldiers with six other militants. Security sources have also revealed pictures of the militants to refute claims that “those who surrender are being killed.” Stating that the surrendered militants’ needs are being met and those who are wounded are treated and then sent the necessary authorities for procedural acts, sources called on militants to surrender “before it is too late” and called on parents to “take care of their children.” The surrender came at a time when the security forces expanded their operations to rural parts of the Silvan district of the southeastern Diyarbakır province with the governor’s office declaring curfews in four neighborhoods of the town on April 14. |
| Posted by:Steve White |