Syria has turned over a senior Kurdish militant and six other rebels to Turkey,strong> in a sign of closer security cooperation between the former rivals, a Turkish security official says.
Time for Kurdistan
Separately, fighting in southeastern Turkey killed three soldiers and three Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels late on Thursday, another official said. Syrian police detained the PKK's Hamili Yildirim, who has evaded capture since 1996, and the others in July as they tried to cross into Turkey from Syria, a police official said on Friday. They were based in a PKK stronghold in northern Iraq and were heading for the Turkish city of Tunceli, where separatist violence has been on the rise, newspapers said. Turkish police have been interrogating the men in a prison in Hatay province, bordering Syria, since taking them into custody on September 4 after weeks of talks with Syria, the official said. |