Şemdinli

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 15, 1984, at around 21:30 p.m., militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) infiltrated from Iraq and raided the Turkish border towns of Eruh and Şemdinli.

A beheaded cat has been sent to the mayor’s office in a southeastern town in Turkey to “threaten” the recently-elected politician.

The beheaded cat, which was sent to Şemdinli Mayor Sefer Yılmaz on July 19, was noticed by cleaners who arrived in the office in the morning, Doğan News Agency reported Aug. 15.