Istanbul / NINA / - The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the killing of a militant of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, accusing Turkey of being responsible for the attack on its soldiers in 2012.

The Turkish Defense stated in a statement today, Wednesday, that the Turkish intelligence carried out an operation against the PKK in "Gara" region of northern Iraq, and managed to kill the terrorist Ozcan Yildiz, and that "Yıldız", nicknamed within the organization as "Dr. Rudi", was among the terrorists participated in an attack against Turkish forces in 2012 in Daglica region of Hakkari state, in southeastern Turkey, which resulted in the killing of 8 soldiers at the time.

The Turkish Defense indicated in its statement that "Yıldız" joined the "PKK" in 1999, and participated in a large number of bloody attacks inside Turkey, and in 2013 he fled to northern Iraq and was active there in several areas such as "Kandil" and "Zab" and Awash and Sinjar.

It confirmed that Turkish intelligence had been tracking Yildiz for a long time, and that he had moved to "Gara" last year to supervise the treatment of the militants of the organization.

The security forces and the Turkish army have been targeting the sites of the armed Kurdish organization and pursuing its members inside the country, and northern Iraq in response to terrorist attacks carried out by the separatist organization inside Turkey from time to time, targeting civilians, security elements and the army./End




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