Türkiye’s intelligence eliminates key PKK terrorists in precision operation

The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) eliminated two PKK terrorists, Vesile Duran (codename Ronahi Dilhvin) and Dilan Oklu (codename Arin Tolhildan), in a targeted operation in the Hakurk region of Iraq.

According to security sources, MIT learned that the senior leaders of the PKK had issued directives for an attack on the Turkish Armed Forces’ operational area in Hakurk. These instructions were relayed by Duran and Oklu, who were under arrest warrants for terrorism-related offenses.

MIT conducted surveillance on the two terrorists and identified them as they traveled to a meeting location in Hakurk to deliver the attack orders. A precise operation led to their neutralization.

Vesile Duran joined the PKK in 2014, received armed training in northern Iraq in 2015, and had been active in the region. Dilan Oklu, involved in armed actions from the age of 15, is the brother of Vedat Oklu, codename “Tolhildan Zevki,” a PKK terrorist eliminated in 2019.

Listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the U.S. and the EU, the PKK is responsible for over 40,000 deaths in its nearly 40-year campaign of terror against Türkiye.