Turkey to pay cash reward for capture of PKK leaders

le=”text-align: justify; “>Turkey’s Interior Ministry has prepared regulations that would initiate a monetary reward system to help with the country’s anti-terrorism efforts, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The Turkish state will pay 4 million Turkish Liras to people providing information leading to the capture of Murat Karayılan, leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), or one of the 49 other people designated as the “leading staff” of the PKK under the regulation.

The regulation would also create a 2 million-lira reward for the capture of any lower-level PKK leader. Those who aid in the capture of a perpetrator or a plotter of a terrorist attack would be rewarded with no less than 100,000 liras while the reward for the capture of an ordinary PKK member would be less.  Read more... (184 words)

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