Turkey Increases the Pressure on the PKK Headquarters in Iraq Leave a reply By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 June 2020 Ismail Nazlikul (Kasim Engin) [image source]The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced earlier this week that one of its senior commanders, Ismail Nazlikul (who used the codename “Kasim Engin”) had been killed on 27 May in a Turkish airstrike in Iraqi Kurdistan. Continue reading →