Two 'suicide bombers' caught in Turkey's border with Syria

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Two suicide bombers along with three other members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were caught while trying to illegally cross the border from Syria to Turkey, Doğan News Agency reported on Jan. 7.

Turkish gendarmerie forces caught five people, who were trying to illegally enter into Turkey's southern province of Şanlıurfa's Ceylanpınar district from Syria's Rasulayn town, on Jan. 7.

During their testimonies, the five people were determined to be members of the PKK, with which Turkish army is in an armed conflict since the mid-1980s.

Two of the five PKK members were determined to have received trainings in PKK camps in Rasulayn, which is under the control of Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and were trying to cross into Turkey in order to conducted a suicide attack inside the country.

Turkey regards the PYD as a terror organization due to its links with the PKK. The United States, on the other hand, does not regard the PYD as a terror organization, and regards it as a reliable partner in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Like Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union designate the PKK as a terror organization.

Doğan News Agency reported that the two suicide bombers had aimed at conducting a suicide attack in Istanbul and Ceylanpınar.

The interrogation of the five terrorists was reported to be ongoing.  

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