Infamous PKK terrorist leader assassinated
The news of the assassination of a PKK leader comes at a time when the strife within the PKK is deepening
On Saturday when news that a leading PKK terrorist leader was assassinated in northern Syria reached the Turkish presidential plane carrying President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan back from the NATO summit in Warsaw there was guarded optimism.
Commenting on the assassination, Erdoğan news told reporters that the inner fighting within the PKK terrorist organization has deepened "and now they cannot hide it."
The assassination of Fehman Hüseyin, code named "Doctor Bahoz Erdal," is a coup as it is the first killing of a notorious PKK leader wanted in Turkey for a string of massacres and bombings that in total killed hundreds of people.
He was the leading PKK persona in northern Syria where the PKK and its Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has been consolidating their stronghold in the region.
The assassination is said to have been carried out by the Tel Hamis Brigades, which has killed 14 PKK militants, including Hüseyin's bodyguards. The Tel Hamis Brigades spokesman, Halid el-Hasekavi, announced that his group had blown up the motorcade carrying the terrorist leader on a road in northern Syria just near the border town of Qamishli at 8:25 p.m. Friday evening. The irony of it all is that Hüseyin was the leader of People's Defense Forces (HPG), the PKK's armed faction, and was also the boss of the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a PKK splinter group that has been behind several suicide bombings in Turkey as well as roadside bombs that have killed scores of Turkish security forces just like the roadside bomb that took his life.
The Tel Hamis Brigades have called the PKK an invader of Syria and the leading ally of the regime of Bashar Assad.
All this of course suggest one thing, that nowhere safe any longer for the PKK leadership. PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan is safe because he is now serving a life sentence for treason in the İmralı Island prison. But others like Cemil Bayık, Murat Karayılan and Duran Kalkan are now high on the wanted list and face the wrath of the Turkish people.
The news of the assassination comes at a time when the strife within the PKK is deepening. The PKK is receiving blow after blow in Turkey as security forces intensify their drive against the separatist terrorists in eastern and southeastern Turkey. The PKK's cannabis fields have been destroyed and the harvest has been torched. That is a massive blow to the PKK's finances, which support its terrorist war with drugs sold especially in Europe.
The PKK tried to wage a separatist war in cities and townships and lost 7,000 militants, which has created furor among PKK leaders who seem to be blaming each other for the massive flop.
That is why the PKK has sent the deputies of the Kurdish nationalist Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) to Europe and Washington to try to rally support to bring pressure on Ankara to stop the security campaign against the PKK in cities and townships.
Besides all this, the PKK has lost its base support among its former sympathizers as people have lost their homes and their well-being because of the secessionist campaign, which proved to be a total failure.
The massage from Hüseyin's assassination is clear: Nowhere in the world is safe for the PKK leadership.
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