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Turkish Foreign Ministry welcomed the U.S. State Department’s decision to put multi-million-dollar bounties on the heads of three senior PKK terrorists, according to a statement on Wednesday.
In a written statement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said: “We expect this step to be supported by concrete actions to be made in Iraq and Syria as part of fighting against PKK and its extensions.”
On Tuesday, the U.S. embassy in Ankara announced that the State Department had offered rewards for helping catch three senior PKK terrorists.
Under the Rewards for Justice Program, those who give information leading to the identification or location of Murat Karayılan, Cemil Bayik or Duran Kalkan are eligible for rewards of $3 million to $5 million.
The announcement followed U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer’s official visit to the capital, Ankara.
The reason Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists persist in remaining in Syria’s Manbij has been revealed.PKK terrorists have built a so-called crossing point in Manbij and have been extorting money from oil truck drivers who are forced to travel through the region, according to reports.A Manbij deal between Turkey and the U.S. focuses on the withdrawal of the YPG/PKK forces from the city to stabilize the region, which is in the northeast of the Aleppo province in northern Syria. However the terrorists do not want to leave the area to continue their extortion activities.They earn a large income daily from extorting tax money by charging each truck driver $55 (300 Turkish liras).Video: PKK/YPG terrorists seek to remain in Manbij in order to continue extorting moneyUS patrols Hasakah with SDF terrorists days after joint US-Turkey patrols in ManbijThe majority of the oil trucks that are being stopped by terrorists, carry fuel from the YPG/PKK-occupied Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria and Raqqa.Footage posted on Tuesday by Turkey’s Ihlas News Agency shows the moment trucks queue up to pass through the PKK occupied-region of Manbij.U.S. forces carried out a patrol with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) terrorists near the Turkish border in Syria’s Hasakah on Sunday.The SDF is dominated by the YPG terrorists, which is the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian offshoot of the PKK.The U.S. also has supplied the PYD and YPG with thousands of truckloads of weapons to allegedly use in the fight against Daesh, despite Ankara’s warnings that they are the Syrian offshoots of the PKK terror organization.Turkey neutralizes 45 terrorists over past week
PKK/YPG terrorists seek to remain in Manbij in order to continue extorting money
A wanted PKK terrorist was among the terrorists “neutralized” in an operation carried out in Turkey’s southeastern Sirnak province on Oct. 31, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.According to a statement by the ministry, the terrorist was Bedirhan Abo, codenamed Masiro, who was in the red category of their wanted list.YPG/PKK, Daesh allegedly made deal to swap US soldiersThe air-backed operation was conducted in the Mt. Cudi area in Sirnak.The wanted list is divided into five color-coded categories, with red as the most wanted, followed by blue, green, orange and grey.The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU. In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, it has been responsible for the deaths of some 40,000 people, including women and children.US begins patrols with SDF in northeast SyriaTwenty-one held over extortion for PKK in Turkish capital
Red-coded PKK terrorist among 'neutralized' in Turkey