PKK violence up after announcement of ending cease-fire
by Daily Sabah
ISTANBULJul 13, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Daily Sabah
Jul 13, 2015 12:00 am
One police officer was injured after being shot in the leg by militants from the outlawed PKK's youth organization in the Nusaybin district of Ağrı province late on Sunday. Two suspects were detained on Monday. The militants from the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) staged a protest on Sunday over the prison conditions of the imprisoned leader of the terrorist PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, who is serving a life sentence in the prison on İmralı Island. The militants set up barricades on roads and threw Molotov cocktails and fireworks and were countered by police forces firing gas bombs and pressurized water.
One officer was wounded in the leg after the protesters opened fire. The wounded police officer was taken to the hospital and security measures were tightened at the scene following the incident.
The suspects, identified as R.D. and O.Y., were detained early Monday in multiple anti-riot police raids after an investigation was launched into the shooting.
Teams from the Nusaybin Police Department Counterterrorism Unit along with anti-riot police forces from the Mardin Police Department raided three houses on July 13 on Serçe Street in the Abdulkadir Paşa neighborhood.
The police detained R.D. and seized his father's pump-action rifle in the raid of his home. O.Y. was also detained during the operation.
Two PKK groups of roughly 50 militants came to the Gürbulak and Iğdır roads on Saturday, opening fire on trucks and throwing Molotov cocktails. During the attacks, three trucks were engulfed in flames and one Iranian was injured. On Sunday, PKK militants clashed with gendarmerie forces after they seized a vehicle belonging to the municipality of Göle in the province of Ardahan. One person died and two others were injured after the militants opened fire on a bus at the scene of the clashes.
A statement released on Saturday by the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella network that includes the PKK, said that the cease-fire declared via a message from Öcalan in 2013 has ended. It is believed to have instigated the violence by the militants.
The statement said the PKK has decided to mobilize all sources "including the guerilla forces" to halt the construction of all dams.
"As of now, all the dams and machines used in the construction of the dams will be the target of our guerilla forces," the statement further read.
The KCK accused the government of "exploiting the conditions of a cease-fire by constructing outposts and roads with military purposes, cultural massacre and dams" and claimed in the statement that Ankara was making preparations for a new war.
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