MESOP LATEST : Kurdish PYD official assassinated in Qamishlo
05.06.2014 – BasNews, Syria – A Kornish Council member was killed by a car bomb on Thursday morning in Qamishlo. The reason for the assassination is unclear.
At 10:30 this morning, a car bomb exploded and killed Kornish Council member Abdullah Heci Qertemini at the Helko crossing in Qamishlo’s Kornish neighborhood. Qertemini was born in Qamishlo in 1955. He was a member of the People’s Assembly in Kornish, which is affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD). Islamic extremist groups have repeatedly targeted Kurdish officials. Kurdish security forces have not yet commented on this morning’s attack, and the people responsible for Qertemini’s assassination cannot yet be confirmed.