The United States announced today that it is placing multimillion-dollar bounties on three leaders of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Kurdish insurgent group.
During a visit to Turkey today, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer announced that the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is offering money for information leading to the capture of the fugitives. The State Department has put the bounties at $5 million for Murat Karayilan, $4 million for Cemil Bayik and $3 million for Duran Kalkan.
