One more YPG/PKK member reunites with her family
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Mekiye Kaya, who had surrendered to Turkish security forces, reunited with her parents in Diyarbakır on Thursday.
Mekiye Kaya laid down her weapons and surrendered to Turkish security forces in Silopi Distric of Şırnak province.
Her mother Husniye Kaya, who staged a sit-in with many other families in Diyarbakir demanding that the PKK return their children, expressed her happiness and said that she had struggled for returning of her daughter since she was kidnaped.
The families that their children were either kidnapped or deceived by the YPG/PKK have been staging a sit-in protest in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir outside the provincial office of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) since September 3. (ILKHA)
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