Murat Karayılan

Murat Karayılan (Kurdish: Mirad Qarayîlan; born 5 June 1954), also nicknamed Cemal,^[1] is one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).^[2] He became the PKK's acting leader after its original founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999 by Turkish intelligence agents.^[3] In 2014, he left the PKK leader position and was assigned as the new commander-in-chief of the PKK's armed wing, the People's Defence Forces.^[4]

Karayılan was born on 5 June 1954,^[5][6] in Birecik, Şanlıurfa, Karayılan finished his studies at a vocational college of machinery and joined the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 1979. He was active in his native province of Şanlıurfa until he fled to Syria at the time of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.^[6] He called on Kurds to stop serving in the military of Turkey, stop paying taxes and stop using the Turkish language.^[7]

Karayılan was among the PKK leadership accused of narcotic trafficking by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control on 14 October 2009.^[8]

On 13 December 2016, the Mardin 1st Criminal Court of Peace issued a detention warrant for Karayılan and Duran Kalkan, another PKK commander, as part of an investigation into the killing of the Kaymakam of Derik, Muhammet Fatih Safitürk.^[9]

In March 2017, there were reports of a failed assassination attempt against Karayılan, but it was unclear as to whether the attempt was made by Turkish forces or a group within the PKK.^[10]

カラユランと他の2人のPKK指導者は、米国政府とトルコ政府から指名手配されていた。PKKは米国、欧州連合、トルコによってテロ組織とみなされている。^{[ 11 ]}イラクで活動するPKK関連グループは、人権団体から少年兵を募集していると非難されている。^{[ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ]}

2015年10月28日から、彼はトルコ共和国内務省が発表した「最重要指名手配テロリスト」リストの赤色カテゴリーに掲載された。内務省は彼の逮捕に最大1000万トルコリラの懸賞金をかけた。^{[ 16 ]}

ムラット・カライランは、「ビル・サヴァシュン・アナトミシ （戦争の解剖学）」という本の著者でもありました。 ^{[ 17 ]}

• ムラト・カライラン氏へのインタビュー（YouTube）