Mehmet Yıldırım, a senior determine of the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing YPG, was killed in Syria in an operation run by the National Intelligence Organization (MIT). Yıldırım, recognized by his code identify “Hamza Kobani,” was serving because the “finance official” of the terrorist group in Aleppo and Tal Rifaat, safety sources mentioned Sunday.
The sources instructed Turkish media shops that Yıldırım was eradicated within the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo on Feb. 24.
Yıldırım joined the terrorist group in 1986 and was engaged in its actions in Türkiye and Iraq earlier than relocating to Syria in 2015.
The Turkish intelligence company has stepped up its operations overseas lately to stamp out terrorist actions in Iraq and Syria, Türkiye’s two neighbors. In 2022 alone, 23 senior figures of the terrorist group backed by the United States in Syria have been eradicated in MIT’s operations within the two international locations, whereas a lot of PKK members have been transported to Türkiye. Since 2018, greater than 100 terrorists have been eradicated by Turkish intelligence forces. In February, a PKK member behind a terrorist assault on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street final 12 months was killed in a MIT operation in Syria.
For greater than 40 years, the PKK – listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union – has been chargeable for the deaths of greater than 40,000 folks, together with girls, youngsters and infants.
Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of profitable counterterrorism operations – Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018) and Peace Spring (2019) – throughout its border in northern Syria and northern Iraq to forestall the formation of a terror hall and allow the peaceable settlement of residents.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
