A
prosecutor’s office in southeastern Turkey has demanded 15 to 25 years in jail each for 32 people for their alleged role in providing finances
to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) through a large housing project.
The Diyarbakır
Court of Serious Crimes accepted an indictment against the suspects, 11
of whom are under arrest on offenses of providing financing to
terrorism and robbery after 7 percent from the revenues from a 725-house
project in the Kırklardağı area of Diyarbakır was allegedly transferred to the PKK.
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According to allegations, the construction firm responsible for the project was told that the PKK must be given a share from the budget if the development was to be completed.
The document also said the share would be registered as if the units were sold to a person identified as S.A.
Meanwhile, three PKK
militants were killed on June 10 during a security operation in the
İpekyolu district of the eastern province of Van. Counter-terrorism
police and intelligence units conducted an operation at a house in the
Hacıbekir neighborhood, where militants were allegedly preparing for an
attack. The militants were killed in clashes after they responded with
fire to security forces’ call on them to surrender. Four PKK
militants were also wounded in the operation and fled to a forested
area near the scene, where security forces attempted to locate them.
The Turkish General Staff also announced that around 10 PKK militants were killed in air operations conducted in the Dağlıca area of the eastern province of Hakkari on June 10.
Turkish
warplanes conducted two separate air operations in a rural area of
Dağlıca between 4:35 a.m. and 4:58 a.m. and 8:20 and 8:45 a.m., the
General Staff said in a statement. PKK targets were successfully destroyed while warplanes safely returned to their bases, the statement added.
Meanwhile,
the Education Ministry has issued a circular to schools in the
southeastern provinces of Diyarbakır, Mardin, Hakkari and Şırnak to
disregard the absence of students who could not attend school due to
anti-terror operations.
In the southeastern province of Şırnak,
tanks and military unites were seen returning to their posts with the
conclusion of months-long security operations in the provincial center
on June 3.