The PKK terrorist organization Tuesday abducted Salih Zeki Çetinkaya, a district representative for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Çetinkaya was traveling with his brother and a friend in a car when terrorists stopped them between the cities of Bingöl and Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey.Fatih Yeşilyurt, AK Party representative for the eastern province of Erzurum, told state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) that Çetinkaya, head of the AK Party for Erzurum's İspir district, was traveling to the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa when he was kidnapped. "Apparently, [PKK militants] were stopping cars on the road in a show of force. When they searched Çetinkaya and others, they found a party identification card. They asked who the representative of the party among them was and Mr. Çetinkaya disclosed himself. We found out they blindfolded him before taking him away, and they released his brother Şahin as well as another person traveling with them," he said.The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, broke a unilateral truce last summer that it had declared two years ago, and launched a campaign of terrorism in southeastern Turkey where it draws recruits. Since then, hundreds of police and military officers as well as civilians have been killed in terror attacks concentrated in the region. The group occasionally sets up "checkpoints" on secluded roads and abducts off-duty officers and others that seem hostile to them. Last month, three AA journalists were briefly held by the terrorist organization in Nusaybin, a flashpoint town in the province of Mardin where security forces strive to stamp out the PKK presence. The terrorist organization released the journalists two days later.The AK Party spearheaded a reconciliation process that aimed to restore the rights of the country's Kurdish community in an effort to stop PKK propaganda from drawing new recruits for its self-styled fight for Kurdish self-rule. Despite signaling the winding down of its activities and "withdrawal" from Turkish territories into northern Iraq where its members hideout, the PKK later abandoned its response to the process in July 2015.