Funeral held for Mikail Bozlağan, who was killed by the PKK terrorists while his car was seized and used in the Oct. 1 terrorist attack in the capital Ankara.
Tue 03 October 2023:
Turkish police detained on Monday about 90 people in 18 provinces across the country over suspected links to the bloody-minded PKK terror group, state media reported.
The operations, centered in Türkiye’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province, came after PKK claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Sunday in Ankara.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said earlier on Tuesday police carried out raids in 18 Turkish provinces in two separate operations, detaining people suspected of being part of the “intelligence structure” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
A bomb attack was carried out by two terrorists who arrived in a vehicle in front of Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs' General Directorate of Security. One terrorist blew himself up, while another was neutralized.
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Some 13,400 security personnel took part in the operations, the minister said.
The PKK has led a decades-long armed rebellion in Turkey and is considered a “terrorist” organisation by the United States and the European Union.
Tens of thousands of people have died since the start of the conflict in 1984.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near an entrance to the Turkish Ministry of Interior, hours before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was set to address parliament as it returned from its summer recess.
A second gunman was killed in a shootout with police. Two police officers were slightly wounded in the attack.
The suspects arrived at the scene inside a vehicle they seized from a veterinarian in the central Turkish city of Kayseri after shooting him in the head, officials said.
The PKK claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a news website close to the group, while Turkish authorities identified one of the assailants as a PKK member.
Funeral held for 24-year-old killed in terror attack
A large number of people have attended a funeral held for Mikail Bozlağan, who was killed by the PKK terrorists while his car was seized and used in the Oct. 1 terrorist attack in the capital Ankara.
Local media reported that Bozlağan worked as a veterinary technician in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, got married two years ago, and just six months ago, his son, Yağız Efe, came into the world.
In addition to the grieving family, Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz and Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya gathered in the ceremony to bid farewell to the 24-year-old and offered condolences to his family.
New details
In the meantime, with local media providing new details regarding the bomb attack, it was revealed that Bozlağan unwittingly tried to do a favor to the two terrorists by picking them up as they were hitchhiking along the road.
Bozlağan encountered the terrorists while on a journey from Kayseri to the southern province of Adana for the medical treatment of an animal. The reports stated that he was initially subjected to physical assault and later tragically shot dead by the terrorists.
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