The Kurdistan region announced on Saturday that its counterterrorism unit had arrested Mazloum Dag, a 27-year-old from Turkey’s Diyarbakir region suspected to have planned the assassination of Osman Kose (Turkish Vice Consul) in a restaurant in Erbil. It also announced later that Mohammad Biskesiz, one of the accomplices of Mazloum Dag was arrested. Report had it that Mazloum Dag’s sister (Dersim Dag) is a member of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP). Turkish Vice Consul, Osman Kose and two Iraqi nationals were killed on Wednesday, 17 July when a gunman opened fire in a restaurant in Erbil.
Source: Viewers Corner News.