Murat Karayılan

The Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has neutralized Muhsin Yağan, a senior PKK/YPG terrorist who was the local leader of northern Syria's Qamishli province, Demirören News Agency has reported.

Turkish authorities have detained some 46 people, including former local officials from People's Democratic Party (HDP), who are suspected of having links to PKK terrorist group, in part of the Kobani investigation, local news agencies reported yesterday.

The detained are among 91 suspects sought by a chief prosecutor for allegedly "providing financial resources on behalf" of PKK.

The US State Department announced it is targeting three senior members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), following a visit of a US official to Ankara on Tuesday.

A senior figure from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has said the group will withdraw its forces from the Sinjar district near Mosul in northern Iraq. 

Murat Karayılan, a senior PKK figure, said the group is currently in negotiations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over the issue, Rudaw reported.

The Mardin Chief Prosecutor's Office issued a detention warrant on Dec. 13 against senior outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) figures Murat Karayılan and Duran Kalkan, as part of the investigation into the killing of Derik District Governor Muhammet Fatih Safitürk.   

Prosecutors on Nov. 30 sought life sentences for 68 suspects, including senior leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Salih Moslim, the head of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), linked to the bomb attack on a military bus in Ankara earlier this year that killed 29.    
  

Turkey is set to demand a red notice for Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-head Salih Muslim, CNN Türk has reported, a day after an arrest warrant was issued for him over a February bomb attack in Ankara.

The Justice Ministry is preparing to apply to the Interpol General Secretary for the red notice on Muslim.

An Ankara court issued an arrest warrant on Nov. 22 for Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-head Salih Muslim as well as senior outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants over a bomb attack targeting military shuttles in Ankara in February, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey killed up to 200 Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG), the military wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), in air strikes in northern Syria on Oct. 19 in order to prevent the YPG fighters' march to the town of al-Bab more to the south, security sources said.

Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan has warned the military leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after they suggested that the group's jailed head could achieve their coming party congress if the peace process comes to fruition.