Turkey captures Kurdish militant in Sweden

<p style="text-align:left">Turkey has captured a top-ranking member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who was seeking asylum in Sweden and returned him to Turkey as part of an intelligence operation, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday, citing anonymous security sources.

Resul Ozdemir, codenamed 'Zibo', was brought to Turkey through the cooperation of Turkey&rsquo;s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and Swedish authorities, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media, Anadolu said.
Ozdemir was allegedly in charge of PKK forces in Cizre, a city of 140,000 on the Syrian border in southeast Turkey. The city was plunged into violence in late 2015 as Kurdish militants and Turkish security forces battled in narrow city centre streets following the collapse of a ceasefire with the PKK.
Turkey and the PKK have been engaged in a decades-long guerilla war in the country&rsquo;s southeast, which has seen more than 40,000 killed, most of them Kurds.
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