Iraq Kurds arrest suspect in killing of Turkish vice consul 0 SHARES Share it! The autonomous region’s security council said its counterterrorism unit had arrested Mazloum Dag, a 27-year-old from Turkey’s Diyarbakir region. The council had put out a wanted notice for Dag a day earlier in connection to Wednesday’s killing of Turkish Vice Consul Osman Kose and two Iraqi nationals in the regional capital Arbil. Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency said the suspect is the brother of Dersim Dag, a member of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP). The HDP, the country’s second largest opposition group, is regularly accused by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of links to Turkey’s outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Source: Manila Bulletin July 20, 2019 15:00 UTC