Eroğlu requested political asylum in Sweden, Anadolu Agency reported on April 17.
Eroğlu was caught at Stockholm Arlanda Airport during a passport check as he was about to board a plane to Turkey and was later arrested.
Meanwhile, clashes erupted between three PKK militants and the police in the Seyhan district of the southeastern province of Adana, after the former staged an attack with automatic weapons on an armored police vehicle on patrol, Doğan News Agency reported on April 18.
One PKK militant was killed and the other two escaped during the clashes, while the police began a search to apprehend the suspects, who fled the scene.
In a separate incident, 18 PKK militants were killed by security forces while they were trying to cross the border to Syria in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin. The militants, two of whom were senior figures in the organization, were attempting to head to Syria’s Qamishli late on April 17, Doğan News Agency reported.
The militants were killed after clashes erupted during the security forces’ operation.
Two M-16 infantry rifles, two glock pistols, 15 Kalashnikovs, three RPG-7 rocket launchers, a number of night vision glasses and a large number of ammunition were seized by the security forces in the search conducted in the area after the operation ended.
A total of 263 PKK militants have been killed since security operations began with the curfews imposed on March 14, Mardin’s Governor’s Office announced in a statement on April 18. A total of 44 soldiers were killed in the aforementioned period, the statement added.
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