Security authorities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq arrested a person who said he carried out the assassination of Deputy Turkish Consul Osman Kose in a restaurant in the city of Arbil, in an attack that also led to the deaths of Iraqi citizens, last Wednesday.
The authorities published a picture of the detainee and said he was from the Turkish city of Diyarbakir. He was visiting the Makhmour camp, southwest of Erbil, where thousands of refugees from Turkey live.
The authorities of the Kurdistan region have described the attack on the Deputy Consul of Turkey as a terrorist act and planned. A media official in the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said he was unaware of the attack or its perpetrators.
Earlier, anti-terrorist forces in Iraqi Kurdistan announced that they had identified the suspect who was involved in the killing of the Turkish deputy consul.
The counterterrorism forces published a search report with two pictures of a Turkish Kurd with black hair and a trim beard, and one appeared to have been taken by a surveillance camera.
The statement said the person in the pictures was the alleged culprit who fired on Wednesday, prompting the Turkish diplomat Osman Kosieh, along with Iraqis at a restaurant in Erbil.
He added that "this person published his image called (Mazloum Dag) was born in 1992, from the people of Diyarbakir in Turkey, which is required by the security authorities in the Kurdistan region."
Meanwhile, the Turkish Anatolia news agency reported that Mazloum Dag, the brother of parliamentarian Dersim Dag of the pro-Kurdish Democratic People's Party of Turkey.
But the People's Party denounced what it called an "absolutely unacceptable provocation attempt," condemning the Irbil attack.
Earlier Ankara, which has military bases in northern Iraq, has vowed an appropriate response to the attack.