Kani Yılmaz

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Kani Yılmaz , real name Faysal Dunlayıcı , (born 1950 in Ceylanpınar ; died on February 10 or 11, 2006 in northern Iraq ) was a high-ranking PKK official and later a dissident of the organization.

Kani Yılmaz was an early member of the PKK. He was captured during the military coup in Turkey in 1980 and spent twelve years in Diyarbakır Prison .

Kani Yılmaz headed the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan , a sub-organization of the PKK, in Europe for several years . He was arrested in Great Britain on October 26, 1994 and extradited to Germany in 1997 and put on trial. It was a total of "55 robberies and 59 arson attacks against Turkish consulates, banks and shops". At least one person was killed. In 1998 he was sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment at the Düsseldorf trials for serious arson. With the verdict - after half of the prison term, taking into account the pre-trial detention - he was released. In 2004 he broke away from the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan and founded an opposition organization called “Partiya Welatparêzên Kurdistan” (PWD) with Osman Öcalan , Abdullah Öcalan's brother. A year later, Kani Yılmaz was killed in an assassination attempt. With him, Sabri Tori (civil Serdar Kaya) died. He had previously been described as a traitor in a message read out on Roj TV on August 25, 2004 by the PKK's Reconstruction Committee. The Society for Threatened Peoples assumes that the PKK committed the murder. The PWD said the organization was infiltrated by a PKK member who placed a bomb in Kani Yılmaz's car. The perpetrator is said to have belonged to Murat Karayılan's bodyguard . His code name is Numan. The family said Kani Yılmaz had previously received death threats from the PKK.

A year before his death, Kani Yılmaz had married the English author Sheri Laizer. Kani Yılmaz was buried in Şanlıurfa.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aksiyon Magazine No. 880, 17.-23. October 2011
  2. ↑ Der SPIEGEL No. 40, 1997
  3. ↑ Der SPIEGEL No. 31, 1995
  4. ↑ Declaration on the murder of Kani Yilmaz by the Society for Threatened Peoples
  5. ↑ haber7.com: Kani Yılmaz'ın katili açıklandı. February 13, 2006, Retrieved December 23, 2009 (Turkish).
  6. ^ Hürriyet: Kani Yılmaz Şanlıurfa'da toprağa verildi. February 13, 2006, accessed December 23, 2019 (Turkish).
personal data
SURNAME Yılmaz, Kani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunlayıcı, Faysal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish functionary of the PKK and later dissident of the organization
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceylanpınar
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2006 or February 11, 2006
Place of death Northern Iraq