Kurdistan Workers’ Party militant group have killed a 23-year-old teacher, who they had abducted last week in the eastern province of Tunceli. Necmettin Yılmaz was driving on a highway when People’s Defence Forces (HPG) militants, a wing of PKK, stopped his car.
HPG released a statement on June 22, claiming that the teacher was a "spy" who turned information in on locations and strategy of militants.
Yılmaz’s father, Halit Yılmaz, expressed that his son appointed as a teacher to a village school in Siverek last October. According to the father, gendarmerie called him when he was waiting for his son to come home and told that Necmettin’s car was burned and bulleted.
Despite the assertion of PKK, governer’s office in Tunceli, where the teacher’s car was found, made a public statement that no evidence was found about the teacher was killed. According to the officials, the security forces are still on duty to find the teacher.
He applied to the Human Rights Association (İHD) in order to find his son, and İHD Tunceli branch head Gürbüz Solmaz called on those who abducted the teacher to set him free without causing him any harm, according to Hürriyet daily news.
The killing comes after another teacher, Şenay Aybüke Yalçın, 22, was also killed by the PKK in the southeastern province of Batman after an armed attack on the vehicle of Batman Mayor Veysi Işık on June 9.
