PKK sees the Shehidan camp as a "safe area" for itself. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has relocated some of its militants from PKK hideouts in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq to a terror camp on the Turkish-Iranian border, from where it is launching attacks against targets in Turkey, Today's Zaman has learned.
The PKK has found an alternative base for itself in Shehidan camp, near the Shemdinli district of Hakkari, in an attempt to save its members from constant bombardment by Turkish military forces of PKK hideouts in northern Iraq.
The PKK sees the Shehidan camp as a "safe area" for itself as the Turkish military does not have a mandate to carry out any cross-border operations in that region. Senior PKK operatives, who also moved to the Şehidan camp, have already begun to commit acts of terrorism in the Turkish provinces of Hakkari, Van, Bitlis and Shırnak from this camp. According to security sources, Mehmet Can Gurhan, a PKK operative based in the Shehidan camp with the code name "Rashit Dostum," masterminded the latest incidents in Shemdinli.
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