Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu mentioned Hamiyet Yalcinkaya, who was code-named Leyla Amed and was liable for overseeing the so-called Botan space, was neutralised in a counterterrorism operation in Sirnak province.
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Türkiye’s “most wanted PKK terrorist” has been reported killed alongside six different terrorists in a counterterrorism operation carried out by Turkish Armed Forces within the nation’s southeast.
The Interior Ministry introduced on Saturday that Hamiyet Yalcınkaya and the opposite suspects had been killed in a January 22 operation in coordination with gendarmerie forces in Sirnak province’s Bestler Dereler area.
“The so-called Botan Field Officer, code-named Leyla Amed, is in a yellow bag. Congratulations to our hero gendarme,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu mentioned in a social media submit.
The picture accompanying Soylu’s submit confirmed three troopers carrying weapons and standing subsequent to an outsized yellow bag with one firearm positioned on prime.
Yalcınkaya was listed within the purple class of the inside ministry’s most needed listing listing, which is split into 5 colour-coded classes. Red is probably the most needed, adopted by blue, inexperienced, orange and gray.
Saturday’s announcement comes a day after the federal government reported that one other operation in Mersin province captured 11 PKK suspects.
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In its greater than 40-year terror marketing campaign in opposition to Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organisation by Türkiye, the United States and the European Union – has been liable for the deaths of greater than 40,000 folks, together with ladies, kids and infants.
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According to statements by captured PKK members, Yalcinkaya participated in lots of terror-related actions of the group.
She additionally took half in lots of armed operations within the rural areas of Diyarbakir between 1993-1996.
“Yalcinkaya told me that she participated in the attack that killed 9 security guards in Yuksekova, Hakkari on 19 June 2012,” mentioned Firat Sisman, a PKK member code-named Ozgur Gabar, who was caught after being injured by the safety forces in 2021.
Yalcinkaya was allegedly liable for terror assaults that killed 49 folks in whole, together with 12 Gendarmerie personnel, 10 Land Forces personnel, 14 safety guards, three safety personnel and 10 civilians between 2018 and 2023.
She had additionally given directions for a lot of actions carried out by the PKK in Sirnak, Siirt, Van and Mardin’s Dargecit district since 2018.
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