The Turkish Army confirms the death of a PKK leader

March 11 () –

Turkish security forces have reported the death of a leader of the Kurdish separatist armed group Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) identified as Hamiyet Yalçinkaya in a military operation carried out on January 22.

In the same operation, another six PKK militants were killed in Bestler Dereler, in the Turkish province of Sirnak, according to the Turkish news agency Anatolia.

Yalçinkaya, also known as ‘Leyla Amed’, was the top leader of the PKK in the Botan region and was tagged with the red level, the highest badge on the five-color fugitive scale of the Turkish Interior Ministry.

The Turkish Army has been fighting the PKK and its allies in southeastern Turkey, in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan (north) and northern Syria since the ceasefire between the government and the armed group was broken in July 2015.

The PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire in Turkey following the February 6 earthquakes in the south of the country, near the border with Syria, which have left almost 48,000 dead in Turkey alone and more than 6,000 in Turkey to date. Syria.