IGDIR
PKK terrorists on Monday night abducted 10 civilians in eastern province of Igdir.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Governorship of Igdir said that PKK terrorists stopped three vehicles on way to a construction site for a skiing resort on Monday night.
The terrorists burned the three vehicles and abducted 10 people out of a total of 13. The terrorists let go a disabled individual and two Azerbaijani citizens.
Among those abducted were contractor Fikri Guner, businessman Zafer Alagoz, engineer Mehmet Tan, lawyer Serkan Gultekin and worker Mehmet Hanifi Avci.
Security forces are conducting a wide scale operation in the region to rescue those abducted.
The PKK is a terrorist organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an independent state. PKK killed around 30,000 Turkish soldiers, policemen, village guards, teachers, engineers and other Turkish citizens in the past 28 years.
The terrorist organization also kidnapped and tortured many Kurdish and Turkish people in the southeastern province of Turkey.
PKK is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the United States and the European Union.
