MIT neutralizes PKK's propaganda chief in Iraq

The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has neutralized Gülistan Tekik, a member of the PKK/KCK's so-called Science and Enlightenment Committee known by the codename Pelin Batman, in a pinpoint operation carried out in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Tekik had previously operated in rural areas as an armed militant, and a fake identity had been arranged for her by the PKK terrorist organization under the special instructions of Murat Karayılan.

Gülistan Tekik, who conducted the organization's propaganda and disinformation activities in Sulaymaniyah with the support of the PUK, was also tasked with spreading the organization's ideology and increasing recruitment.

Continuing her activities under a fake identity to avoid detection, Tekik was also the so-called supervisor of other cells in Sulaymaniyah.

After receiving intelligence that Tekik had been stationed in Sulaymaniyah, MIT tracked her step by step and determined the most appropriate time for the operation. As a result of the successful operation, Gülistan Tekik was neutralized.

WHO IS GÜLİSTAN TEKİK, CODENAMED PELİN BATMAN?

She joined the PKK/KCK in 1998. Gülistan Tekik, codenamed Pelin Batman, who had an active arrest warrant for "membership in an armed terrorist organization," held critical positions within the organization.

Tekik, who was particularly trusted by Murat Karayılan, spent many years alongside high-level organization leaders such as Duran Kalkan and Ferhat Abdi Şahin.

In 2000, she received training in the Ideology Unit, which consisted of specially selected organization members at the PKK camp in Qandil.

In 2006, she became the so-called training supervisor for new recruits in the Hakurk/Hinere region.

She moved to the Syrian region, where she continued her activities at a supervisory level within the organization's women's structure under her fake identity. Gülistan Tekik was subsequently assigned as a training supervisor in the Makhmur region of Iraq.