{"id":47280,"date":"2011-12-05T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T12:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=47280"},"modified":"2023-04-30T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T10:41:14","slug":"pkk-top-member-arrested-in-istanbul-deputy-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/12\/05\/pkk-top-member-arrested-in-istanbul-deputy-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"PKK top member arrested in Istanbul: deputy PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Sunday that a top member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) was arrested in the Turkish largest city of Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A top member of the terrorist organization PKK, whom I cannot identify right now, has been caught in Istanbul,&#8221; Arinc was quoted as saying by the semi-official Anatolia news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Arinc said that Turkish security forces had been successful in all their operations against the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy prime minister said the fact that the PKK was receiving support from foreign countries made the fight against the PKK difficult, adding, &#8220;we need foreign support and measures that will cut the terrorist organization&#8217;s sources in order to succeed in our fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, the PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the PKK during the past over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>via PKK top member arrested in Istanbul: deputy PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Sunday that a top member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) was arrested in the Turkish largest city of Istanbul. &#8220;A top member of the terrorist organization PKK, whom I cannot identify right now, has been caught in Istanbul,&#8221; Arinc was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":86067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[102,1280],"class_list":["post-47280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-istanbul","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}