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Born in Birecik, Şanlıurfa, Karayılan finished his studies at a vocational college of machinery and joined the PKK in 1979.
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Murat Karayılan
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On 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. He was active in his native province of Şanlıurfa until he fled to Syria at the time of the 1980 Turkish coup d"état. He has called on Kurds to stop serving in the military of Turkey, stop paying taxes and stop using the Turkish language.
On October 14, 2009, the United States. Department of the Treasury" General’ s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted the senior leadership of the PKK, designating as significant foreign narcotics traffickers, Murat Karayılan, the head of the PKK, and high-ranking members Ali Rıza Altun and Zübeyir Aydar.
Pursuant to the Kingpin Acting, the designation freezes any assets the three designees may have under United States. jurisdiction and prohibits United States. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with these individuals. The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said that there is no evidence that the organisational structures of the PKK are directly involved in drug trafficking in Germany.
However, the United States continues to hold its position regarding Karayılan.
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