The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced today that a high-ranking official of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was killed in a Turkish secret service operation in Iraq.
According to Erdogan, Kurdish military leader Salman Bozkir, also known as “Doctor Hussein”, was in charge of the PKK in Mahmur, a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq.
“We will not allow this separatist and destructive organization to use Mahmur as an incubator of terrorism. “We will continue to eradicate terrorism at its source,” the Turkish president said in a Twitter post.
“All terrorists will have the same end,” warned the Turkish presidency’s communications chief, Fahrettin Altun.
The Mahmur camp, set up by the UN in the 1990s to house Turkish Kurds, was bombed by a Turkish drone on Saturday. A Kurdish lawmaker from the camp told AFP that three civilians had been killed in the bombing.
Ankara often accuses the PKK of taking control of the camp, 250km south of the Turkish border. Turkey also claims that Iraq remains inactive and has no choice but to wage war on Iraqi soil against the PKK. Earlier last week, Erdogan warned that “if the United Nations does not clear this area (including the Mahmur camp), then we will take over.”
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