Türkiye “neutralizes” a high command of the YPG in Syria

May 13. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Turkish secret services have “neutralized” a high command of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in an operation in northeastern Syria.

Sources from the security apparatus quoted on condition of anonymity by the newspaper ‘Daily Sabah’ have indicated that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has “neutralized” Haydar Demirel, alias ‘Bager Türk’, and the general director of the group to al-Hol province.

Demirel was being followed by MIT since 2020, according to the report, and was “neutralized” while training members of the Kurdish separatist group in the town of Tal Hamis.

Demirel had been part of the Kurdish group since 1993 and received training from the historic leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, who is imprisoned in a Turkish jail.

On the other hand, the military wing of the PKK, the Popular Defense Forces (HPG), has reported the death of eight Turkish soldiers in actions carried out between April 27 and May 5 in the province of Mardin, in the southeast. from Turkey, according to the Kurdish news agency Firat, information that could not be verified.

The Turkish authorities use the term “neutralized” to refer to suspects who have been killed, captured or surrendered to the authorities.

The Turkish Army has intensified its operations against the PKK both in the country and in northern Iraq – where the formation has numerous bases – since the ceasefire between the government and the armed group was broken in July 2015. .