PKK kidnaps, releases six teachers
IĞDIR - Doğan News Agency
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Suspected members of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) briefly kidnapped six school teachers in the
eastern province of Iğdır earlier today before releasing them.
Two armed militants from the group
allegedly entered a school in Bulakbaşı village of the province’s Karakoyunlu
district, forcing the 19 teachers there to go outside. The militants then
kidnapped six of the teachers, who were identified as Umut Görkem Sevinç,
Ersin Karakaya, Soner Er, Mehmet Koçubaba, Lütfü Atılmış and Abdulllah Enes Er.
The group subjected the teachers to
propaganda for around an hour before releasing them unharmed.
Meanwhile, three female teachers and
their driver were kidnapped by the PKK in the southeastern province of Siirt on
Oct. 15 before being freed a day later.
The PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States.
