DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Turkish security forces are crediting an informant reward system for a rise in the number of arrests of Kurdish militants in the past two years.
Just recently, at the beginning of September, forces launched a security operation north of the predominately Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. One man was killed and two were wounded in Baglan village. Locals said all three were simple villagers, but a few days later, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced that the man who died was one of their militants.
