Two PYD members caught at Turkey-Syria border: Army

ANKARA

Two members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and which Turkey designates as a terror organization, were caught on Turkey’s border with Syria as they were illegally trying to enter the country on Feb. 6, the Turkish General Staff alleged in a statement. 

The militants, who were foreigners, were caught with 500 electrical fuses and 200 blasting caps. 

Meanwhile, six foreigners, who are suspected of being members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), were caught in the southeastern border province of Gaziantep as they were trying to cross over into Turkey.