Turkish silence speaks volumes as PKK points to spy ring - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

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Aug 30, 2017

Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), sit with an Arab tribal fighter (L) in a house in the village of Umm al-Dhiban, northern Iraq, April 30, 2016. They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have opened up a new front against Islamic State militants in a remote corner of Iraq. The unlikely alliance between the Sinjar Resistance Units, an offshoot of a le — Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units, a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party, sit with an Arab tribal fighter (L) in a house in the village of Umm al-Dhiban, Iraq, April 30, 2016. — REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

While Turkey remains silent over claims that two Turkish nationals working for the national spy agency MIT are being held by Kurdish rebels, a news agency with access to the group known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has published fresh allegations about the affair.

Firat News reported that the two men were in charge of running a network of spies in Iraqi Kurdistan to monitor the PKK’s activities. Turkish authorities have been pushing for their release without success, Firat claimed.

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