A lawmaker on Wednesday submitted a parliamentary question to Prime Minister regarding allegations that Turkish Intelligence MİT officials were kidnapped by the Kurdish militants from the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq.
Two MİT spies who were trying to infiltrate the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to assassinate Cemil Bayık, a commander, had been ambushed and detained in the Sulaymaniyah city of northern Iraq on August 3, militant group says. PKK also claims that they have a video record of the operation where the Turkish Intelligence officials were captured.
Musa Çam, deputy of the parliamentary main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), stated that after allegations regarding the abduction of MİT officials in northern Iraq began, claims began circulating that the Turkish government contacted the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to asked for the return of the MİT spies. After the Turkish government failed to obtain any results from this request, the PUK office in Ankara has been reportedly closed and Behroz Galali, the PUL representative in Ankara, has been repatriated. Çam, inquiring about this particular allegation, asked why there was not a single statement regarding the deportation of the PUK representative from the government.
Çam said that if the alleged incident, which has occurred after the attachment of MİT to the Chairperson of the AKP, indicate a change in the structuring and policy of the organisation. In order to create a perception that the attachment of the MİT to the Presidency under Erdoğan is a positive step, the government simply wanted to carry out an operation, he added.
