Terrorist YPG/PKK ringleader dies at Iraqi hospital
- Middle East
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 12:07 | 12 March 2026
- Modified Date: 12:19 | 12 March 2026
Salih Muslim, the ringleader of the YPG/PKK terrorist group, died at a hospital in Erbil in northern Iraq where he had been receiving treatment, according to media reports.
The Erbil-based Rudaw Media Network reported Muslim's death but provided no further details.
PKK is a terrorist organization that killed at least 40,000 people in a decades-long terror campaign in Türkiye and the YPG is its Syrian offshoot.