as part of the Gürz-8 operation, organized against PKK in 36 provinces of Turkey, 222 suspects in relations with a criminal organization were detained.
This was announced on the social network by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkey Ali Yerlika.
The head of the department assured that the fight against terrorism will continue with the previous determination and up to the destruction of the last terrorist.
Speaking about the details of the operation, Yerlika specified that Gürz-8 passed when coordinating the Department for Combating Terrorism and the Intelligence Department of the Main Directorate of the Police, as well as the regional police officers.
According to the minister, the power structures have information that the detainees planned to join the ranks of PKK in the surrounding areas.
The suspects in the past conducted active activity in the ranks in a separatist terrorist organization, engaged in propaganda through their accounts on social networks, financed terrorism, participated in courier activities on behalf of the PKK terrorist organization and the activities of PKK in Europe. They had correspondence court sentences and they were inherent in their respects. arrest orders, ”Yerlika specified.
During the operations, unlicensed pistols and hunting rifles, a large number of foreign and Turkish currency, as well as a large number of digital materials and organizational documents were intercepted, added Minister.
Since 2016, Ankara has conducted three successful operations in order to eliminate the threat of terrorism at its southern borders and ensure the safety of the local population. In particular, we are talking about the operations “Shield of the Euphrates” (2016), “olive branch” (2018) and “Source of the World” (2019), which were held by the Turkish Armed Forces in the north of Syria.
RKK, over the years of its bloody terrorist activity against Turkey, is responsible for the death of more than 40 thousand people, including women, children and babies.
The United States and the European Union introduced RKK to the lists of terrorist organizations.
In recent years, the RSC seeks to shift responsibility for its bloody crimes in the region to its branches.
In Syria, the RKK terrorists are covered by the names Pyd and YPG, and in the past few years they call themselves “Syrian democratic forces.”
In Iran, RSC acts as “Party of Free Life of Kurdistan” (pjak).