The interconnection between the Daesh and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist groups was discovered when the two terrorist organizations were understood to have exchanged hostages in Suluq village close to the Daesh-held Raqqa city of Syria.
The two terrorist groups, which have been conducting attacks against Turkey, have exchanged 14 Daesh terrorists with 14 civilians, including two Arab-origin people.
Before the exchange, Daesh and PYD/YPG commanders were discovered to have met three times.
According to local sources speaking to Turkish Yeni Şafak daily newspaper, Daesh and PKK exchanged hostages seven times only in the last one year.
Previously, a Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) member, Uğur Pehlivanoğlu, who was the principal of a school in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, was understood to have created a team in the Daesh terrorist organization.
Turkey has been intensively fighting against terrorist groups, three in particular: the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Daesh and FETÖ.
Turkey has been conducting operations against the three terrorist groups across the country; along with the ongoing airstrikes against PKK in northern Iraq and the ongoing Euphrates Shield operation against the terrorist elements in Syria.
The PKK and Daesh are recognized as terrorist organizations in the U.S., EU and Turkey; however, so far only Turkey considers FETÖ as being a terrorist organization. Turkey has been explaining to western countries, especially during the recent UN meeting, the grave danger that the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, or FETÖ, poses to many countries and has been providing evidence to the U.S. in order to extradite to Turkey the mastermind of the July 15 coup attempt, Fetullah Gülen.
