Turkey nabs senior PKK terrorist in Syria

Turkish intelligence forces nabbed a senior PKK/YPG terrorist and revealed the terror group's plots to attack Turkish army outposts along the Syria border, according to security sources on Monday, Report informs, citing Anadolu Agency.

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) captured Ibrahim Babat, code-named Sheh Guyi, so-called brigade leader of the terror group, in a point operation in Syria while he was traveling in his vehicle, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Babat joined the PKK/YPG in 2011, started with his activities in rural areas of the Haftanin region in northern Iraq, and later moving in 2017 to Syria where he was rose in the terror group's ranks.