2023-12-28 14:39:00
Original title: Türkiye kills a senior Kurdish militant in northern Syria
Xinhua News Agency, Ankara, December 28 (Reporter Wang Tengfei) Turkey’s Anadolu News Agency reported on the 28th, citing sources from the Turkish intelligence agency, that the Turkish intelligence agency killed a high-level member of a Kurdish armed organization in northern Syria.
According to reports, Turkey’s National Intelligence Service killed Emman Koli, a senior member of the Syrian Kurdish armed “People’s Protection Units” during an operation in northern Syria near the Turkish-Syrian border.
Turkish intelligence agencies believe that Kurdish armed groups active in the region have planned attacks on Turkish security forces on the Turkish-Syrian border.
The PKK was founded in 1979 and seeks to establish an independent state through force in the Kurdish-inhabited areas on Turkey’s borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria. It is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey.
Since the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011, the “People’s Protection Units” have been active in northern Syria where Kurds live. They mainly fight once morest the extremist organization “Islamic State” and currently control a large area of northern Syria. The Turkish government believes that Syrian Kurdish forces are related to Türkiye’s PKK.
In recent years, Turkish troops have repeatedly crossed the border to attack Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria.
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