SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is responsible for the killing of a Kurdish citizen in Gara mountain in the Kurdistan Region, authorities in Duhok said on Tuesday.
In a statement, Duhok governorate condemned the “abduction, detention, imprisonment, and martyring of Jotyar Muhseen Syari by the PKK”.
“The detention and imprisonment of civilians are only the job of the judicial institutions, executed in the framework of law. This act conducted outside these institutions is illegal and inhuman,” it added.
The Turkish military launched an operation dubbed “Claw-Eagle 2” against the PKK fighters in the Gara region on February 10.
On February 13, Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the Turkish military had found bodies of 13 Turkish citizens in a cave, who he said were held by the PKK on the Gara mountain.
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the PKK military wing, denied it had killed the Turkish citizens, saying the area was bombed by Turkish warplanes.
Turkey has conducted numerous ground and aerial cross-border offensives into neighboring northern Iraq to attack PKK fighters, who maintains bases in the region.
