Turkish intelligence neutralized prominent member from the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party, classified as a terrorist organization in Türkiye, through an operation in Syria’s Ayn al-Arab district.
Anadolu Agency quoted security sources as saying that Turkish intelligence killed Osman Nuri Ocakli, codenamed Yilmaz Behrares, after monitoring his movements for a while.
The sources added that Ocakli gave instructions to carry out attacks against the security forces in Türkiye and planned for other attacks including the attack on the Bursa prison, in the west of the country.
They said Ocakli was a prominent candidate to succeed Zeki Gurbuz, the Syria Officer of MLKP. He operated as the leader of the armed wing of the MLKP, since 2000.
Having close organizational relations with the PKK, a designated terrorist group, Ocakli moved to the Qandil region of Iraq in Nov. 2014 and started carrying out terrorist activities in the Rasulayn region of Syria in 2015.
As of April 2018, the person responsible for illegal crossings between Türkiye and Syria on behalf of MLKP, became the "right-hand man” of Bayram Namaz, the former MLKP’s Syria leader.
He became “the 3rd man of the organization in Syria.”
After Bayram Namaz was neutralized in 2019, Ocakli started his activities as an assistant to Zeki Gurbuz, who was appointed as the Syria Officer of MLKP and was later on killed by Turkish intelligence.
