Murat Karayılan (Kurdish: Mirad Qarayîlan) (born 1954), also nicknamed Cemal, is one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He has been the organization PKK's acting leader since its original founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999 by Turkish intelligence agents. On 2014, he left the PKK leader position and was assigned as the new commander-in-chief of the PKK's armed wing, the People's Defence Forces.
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16 September 2023 (aged )
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