Court Issues Warrants For 48 PKK/PYD Leaders
November 22 2016
A court in Ankara has issued an arrest warrant for 48 members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), reports the Daily Sabah (Istanbul, Turkey).
Among those named is the chief of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria, Salih Muslim. They are wanted for their alleged role in a car bombing in the Turkish capital in February that killed 29 people.
Issued on Tuesday, the warrant also covers the PKK's top members, Zubeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal, who are said to...
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