Zaman reported on 22 November that Syrian national Fehman Huseyin (code name Dr. Bahoz Erdal) has gathered 750 PKK insurgents in Hakkari to spend the winter and to launch operations as the spring begins to revenge Turkish military campaigns which killed PKK insurgents.
Two days later the same newspaper reports that Dr. Bahoz Erdal is possible the commander of a new PKK camp in Syria.
In the past there were the same issues of suspicious media reports about the location of Murat Karayilan and Cemil Bayik in 2008. There was speculation that Karayilan was caught and then released by Iran.
This shows that reporting by the Turkish media on the location of PKK-leaders should be taken with a grain of salt. According to a Dutch journalist it was reported that Karayilan was ‘caught’ 26 times since 1997.
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