A new regulation was issued in Turkey's Official Gazette on Monday concerning the fight against PKK terror in which citizens for the first time will be rewarded for informing on the organization's senior cadre.The regulation states: "Those who help in picking up the individuals who are sought in connection to terror" will be rewarded in compliance with the seniority of the terrorists. Sources indicated that the exact decision has not been made yet. In the event of information leading to the capture of a low-level member, the reward is TL 200,000 ($68,432) and for senior level officials from the PKK and Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) – an umbrella organization that includes the PKK – the amount is TL 4 million.Ankara does not require informants to be Turkish citizens to receive the reward, as the regulation in the Official Gazette also does not specifically indicate such a condition.In the regulation it is also stated that the rewards will be designated by a commission, including police officers and members from the general command of the gendarmerie under the deputy undersecretary of the Interior Minister. As a never-before-seen practice, sources stress the government is quite determined in its fight against terror and that the regulation will be applied under the scope of the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).The regulation resembles the U.S. Rewards for Justice Program, which was established in 1984 and became much more wide-spread in the post-9/11 period. The program offers rewards for information that hinders or resolves acts of international terrorism against the country and more than $125 million has been paid so far for 80 people. The program offers $25 million for al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and $10 million Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham's (ISIS) self-proclaimed caliph.Last week, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office issued arrest warrants for the PKK's top 52 members, including Murat Karayılan, Cemil Bayık, Duran Kalkan, and it will apply to the Justice Ministry to issue a "red notice" that will help claim the members.The prosecutor's office had demanded that the police headquarters locate the PKK's top senior officials and the activities they are charged with through an official document in November 2011. The Ankara Criminal Court of Peace later issued an arrest warrant for the 52 terrorists.More than 600 terrorists have been arrested by various EU countries. Even though Turkey has requested the return of the terrorists, the answer has so far been negative. Germany alone rejected more than 300 requests coming from Ankara for the return of terrorists. The aforementioned terrorists have actively participated in terrorist activities linked with the PKK.The PKK, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and E.U., has killed dozens of security officials in numerous terrorist attacks throughout the country since the organization broke the cease-fire in July. In response to the violent attacks, the Turkish military has carried out airstrikes on PKK hideouts and reportedly killed 943 militants while more than 850 have reportedly been injured.According to sources in Ankara, the PKK is expected to declare a tactical cease-fire in the coming days due to its heavy casualties. Nevertheless, due to constant denials from PKK leaders to end armed conflict, Ankara is likely to consider any call for a cease-fire as a tactical move to heal wounds.Raids on the PKK, ISIS and DHKP-C have netted 2,221 people in a wave of counterterrorism operations amid a spike in attacks targeting police and the military after a deadly July 20 suicide bombing in the southeastern town of Suruç, which killed 33 civilians. Reportedly 559 of the suspects have been arrested.The military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to state-run news agency, said the statements of PKK terrorists revealed many had fled Turkey while others were ready to surrender. The group had "suffered the worst blow in its history as a result of the airstrikes that began on July 22," the source said, and the impact of the air strikes had "completely demoralized" the fighters.According to the military source, the PKK is facing increased difficulty recruiting members and has led to the recruitment of children through kidnapping and bribery. The source cited a captured PKK member as telling his interrogators that some of these children had been killed in recent operations.The remains of PKK members killed in strikes on the Qandil and Hakurk regions of northern Iraq have been left decomposing because of fears of further airstrikes, according to the military source.Formed in 1978, the PKK had been fighting the Turkish government for an independent state until the early 2000s. The group then shifted to a goal of autonomy in the predominately Kurdish inhabited regions of Turkey.