Murat Karayılan

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Murat Karayilan (left) with Polat Can (right)

Murat Karayılan (* 1956 in Şanlıurfa , Turkey ) is the current Supreme Commander of the Hêzên Parastina Gel (People's Defense Forces) . His code name is "Cemal".

Personal

The exact dates of Karayilan's life and his date of birth are not publicly known.

Karayılan graduated from the Gaziantep Mechanical Engineering College and joined the PKK in 1979 . At the 3rd Congress of the PKK he was appointed to the central committee of the party and in 1991 entrusted with tasks in Europe. In May 1992 he returned to Turkey and took over command of the “Botan” region. At the 5th Congress of the PKK in 1994 he became a member of the so-called “Presidential Council” and was entrusted by Öcalan with the task of “rebuilding the PKK”. After Abdullah Öcalan's capture, Karayılan applied for asylum in the Netherlands, which was rejected. At times he served as vice chairman of the Kongra Gel and as commander in chief of the People's Defense Forces .

After his return to Northern Iraq, he took over power within the PKK and was chairman of the executive council of Koma Civakên Kurdistan , the umbrella organization of the PKK , until 2013 . He is presumably staying in the northern Iraqi Kandil Mountains and planning the actions of the PKK troops in Turkey from there. The Turkish media repeatedly report a power struggle within the PKK. Karayılan's main opponent is Bahoz Erdal .

On October 14, 2009, the US Treasury Department's Foreign Investment Control Bureau decided to freeze Karayılan, Rıza Altun and Zübeyir Aydar's assets. The resolution identifies Karayılan as a major foreign drug trafficker . On November 6, 2018, the US announced that it would provide up to US $ 5 million as part of its Reward for Justice program for information leading to the arrest of Karayilan.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karayılan: Erdoğan AB'yi okuyamıyor Article in Milliyet of May 7, 2009
  2. ↑ Nejdet Buldan: PKK'de Kadın Olmak. Istanbul 2004, p. 19
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel, October 30, 2007
  4. ↑ Office of the Treasury Department for Foreign Fund Control (OFAC): (TG-318) Treasury Designates Three Leaders of the Kongra-Gel as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers. United States Department of the Treasury , October 14, 2009, p. 1 , accessed October 14, 2009 .
  5. ↑ US offers rewards of up to $ 5 million for information on 3 senior PKK leaders . In: The Defense Post . November 6, 2018 ( thedefensepost.com [accessed November 8, 2018]).
  6. ^ Rewards for Justice - Wanted for Terrorism - Murat Karayilan. Retrieved November 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Karayılan, Murat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cemal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-Kurdish guerrillas
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanliurfa , Turkey