Published January 02,2024
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Turkish intelligence has “neutralized” Abdulmutalip Dogruci, a senior PKK terrorist in northern Iraq, safety sources stated on Tuesday.
The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) situated the terrorist codenamed Cesur Vedat, within the Iraqi metropolis of Sulaymaniyah, stated the sources on situation of anonymity on account of restrictions on talking to media.
It was decided that Dogruci had been assigned by the PKK terrorist group to prepare and supervise drug trafficking actions within the Sulaymaniyah countryside. The terrorist, tried for drug trafficking and looting in Istanbul prior to now, moved to Iraq in 2017 and began working within the countryside.
Turkish authorities use the time period “neutralize” to suggest the terrorists in query surrendered or had been killed or captured.
The anti-terror operation got here after the Dec. 29 PKK terror assault that killed 12 Turkish troopers in northern Iraq. Turkish airstrikes, since then, have destroyed dozens of terror targets in northern Iraq and Syria, and neutralized senior terrorists.
PKK terrorists typically conceal out in northern Iraq to plot cross-border assaults in Türkiye. The group additionally has a Syrian department, often known as the YPG.
In its greater than 35-year terror marketing campaign in opposition to Türkiye, the PKK-listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the U.S., and EU-has been accountable for the deaths of greater than 40,000 folks, together with ladies, kids, and infants.
Source: www.anews.com.tr