Murat Karayılan
Acting military commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) · Turkey · On the map · Lived 1954 to 2023 · aged 69
Murat Karayılan, also nicknamed Cemal, is one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He became the PKK's acting leader after its original founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999 by Turkish intelligence agents.
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In 2014, he left the PKK leader position and was assigned as the new commander-in-chief of the PKK's armed wing, the People's Defence Forces.
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Lived 1954 to 2023 · aged 69