Kurdish insurgency presence along the Iraqi border

[Ret.] Gen. Osman Pamukoglu placed the number of PKK operatives in the Anatolia region at 7,000. At a conference on March 24 at Sakarya University, Pamukoglu said the PKK fighters have been hiding in the mountains in the southeast.

"They have received military training in the mountain regions," Pamukoglu said. "They have also been indoctrinated."