Two Kurdish youth affiliated with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) committed suicide by blowing themselves up on the 18th anniversary of Turkey's capture of the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.

The mayor of Makhmour district, north-east of Mosul, told BasNews that an explosion took place last night in a refugee camp in Makhmour where the PKK affiliates are living.

Jamal Murtka, the commander of Peshmerga forces in Makhmour, told BasNews an individual from the camp exploded himself last night and a girl also blew herself up earlier today in the same camp.

The commander described the action as inapropriate, adding that no one should be urged to commit suicide.

The PKK-affiliated youth have apparently exploded themselves in protest to Ocalan's detention by Turkey, expressing their utmost sacrifice to the Kurdish jailed leader.

Ocalan is serving a life sentence in the prison on Imrali island in northwestern Turkey after his capture in 1999.




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