Turkish security services neutralise high-value terrorist in northern Iraq

Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) officers have liquidated a member of the terrorist organisation PKK Jalal Birdal in the Gara district of northern Iraq, Anadolu reported.

According to security sources, the terrorist, codenamed "Sidar Serhat," joined the murderous group while still studying at the university's engineering department.

The militant has been involved in numerous terrorist attacks against Turkish security forces in the Zap and Hakurk districts, as well as a number of attacks by other terrorist groups. Birdal was found to be in charge of the so-called "PKK press office and archive", carrying out terrorist activities in the Ghara region of northern Iraq.

It became known that Birdal was trying to send a number of members of a terrorist organisation to Türkiye. He was neutralised along with the terrorists who were with him during an operation by Turkish security services in the Gara district in northern Iraq.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that from 1984, when PKK militants first carried out a bloody crime in Türkiye, until March 2020, 7,500 members of Türkiye's security forces and 6,800 civilians have died at the hands of the murderous organisation.

The US and the European Union have included the PKK on the list of terrorist organisations.

Despite Ankara's attempts to find ways to resolve the situation, the PKK terrorist organisation has resumed armed attacks since July 2015.

In recent years, the PKK has sought to shift responsibility for bloody crimes in the region to its offshoots.

In Syria, PKK terrorists cover themselves with the names PYD and YPG, and in the past two years have been calling themselves the "Syrian Democratic Forces."

In Iran, the PKK operates as the "Party of Free Life of Kurdistan" (PJAK).