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murders were published by pro-PKK press organs virtually with pride
under a tone of “Spies received their due punishment”.
In his book entitled “Killing Your Comrade”, Aytekin Yilmaz, who
was sentenced to 10 years for being a PKK member, talks about how
these murders are celebrated by the PKK members through folkloric
dance:
I saw them dance on two instances. One of them was in the 1990s when the
guerrilla [the PKK members] raided an outpost and killed 20-30 soldiers. It
appalled me. The second was when they danced after they had killed their
comrades.
Some of these murders are as follows:
One of the founders of the PKK, Haki Karer of Ordu, occasionally came to
the fore and bothered Ocalan. On May 18, 1977, h he was suspiciously shot
in a coffee house in Gaziantep.

The PKK Europe supervisor, Cetin Gungor, criticized the activities
of the administrators in the organizational congress. He was killed in
Stockholm in 1984 on the grounds of being a spy.
After being arrested in the September 12th coup and serving 11
years in Diyarbakir Prison, Ali Riza code-named Mehmet Cimen, had a
falling out with the organization’s upper echelon in Germany. He was
summoned to Syria. By the decision of the organization, he was exe-
cuted by being drowned in acid in a bathtub.
One of the founding names of the organization and the former
Erzincan-Tunceli supervisor, Yildirim Merkit, was declared a spy-col-
laborator. He was killed in an armed attack in Romania.
Kani Yilmaz (Faysal Dumlayici), who was involved in the founda-
tion phase of the organization, was deemed responsible for Ocalan not
being able to find a hideout in Europe when he was captured. He was

killed in February 10, 2006 when the bomb planted in his car by two PKK
agents exploded.
Rising as high as the deputy secretary general of the PKK, Mehmet
Sener was shot by two hitmen under the accusation of being a spy.