DIYARBAKIR: A senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group has been killed in a bomb attack on a car in which he was travelling in northeast Syria, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday.

If confirmed, the killing of Fehman Huseyin would be a major blow to the PKK, which been fighting in southeast Turkey since a two-year-old ceasefire collapsed a year ago. Thousands of militants, security force members and civilians have died in the conflict since.

Huseyin, a Syrian Kurd known in Turkey by the code name Bahoz Erdal, was killed on Friday evening as he travelled to the northern Syrian city of Qamishli, Anadolu said.

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2016