The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Wednesday announced the death of Sarhad Varto, a member of the foreign relations committee of its political branch, the KCK, along with four fighters who were killed in Turkish airstrikes.
Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) is the greater political organization to which the PKK belongs. The PKK further revealed the names of the four other members killed in airstrikes in March conducted by Turkish warplanes.
This is the second announcement by the group of senior members of the terrorist group as designated by the EU, Turkey and the US. The PKK has been engaged in a decades-long insurgency against Turkey over Kurdish rights and self-rule since the early 1980s in a conflict that has resulted in the death of over 40,000 people on both sides.
