Four members of the DHKP-C, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front, were killed at night on October 31st, by Turkish gendarmes in Meriç, on the banks of the Evros River, while trying to cross the border between Greece and Turkey clandestinely.
Harika Kızılkaya, Burak Ağarmış, Özkan Güzel, Erdoğan Çakır resisted state forces and were killed with weapons in their hands.
The military claims to have found explosives at the scene. In addition, the Izmir Prosecutor General’s Office for the Investigation of Terrorist Crimes issued a detention order against 19 persons accused of belonging to the DHKP-C. Seventeen people were arrested during the operation.