Murat Karayılan, also nicknamed Cemal, is one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He became the PKK's acting leader after its original founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999 by Turkish intelligence agents. In 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.
- Occupation
- military commander
- Position held
- President of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan
- Citizenship
- Turkey
- Born
- June 5, 1954
- Died
