(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >An alleged senior figure of the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) who had been the subject of an international arrest warrant and caught in Stockholm will be extradited to Germany in 15 days a Swedish court has ruled.

The suspect Zeki Erolu had been the subject of a red notice by theGermanFederal Prosecution Office since 2014 for allegedly being one of the senior figures of the organization in Germany between 2012 and 2014.

Erolu requested political asylum in Sweden Anadolu Agency reported on April 17.

Erolu was caught at Stockholm Arlanda Airport during a passport check as he was about to board a plane to Turkey and was later arrested.

Meanwhile clashes erupted between threePKKmilitants and the police in the Seyhan district of the southern province of Adana after the former staged an attack with automatic weapons on an armored police vehicle on patrol Doan News Agency reported on April 18.

OnePKKmilitant was killed and the other two escaped during the clashes while the police began a search to apprehend the suspects who fled the scene.

In a separate incident 18PKKmilitants were killed by security forces while they were trying to cross the border to Syria in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin. The militants two of whom were senior figures in the organization were attempting to head to Syria’s Qamishli late on April 17 Doan News Agency reported.

The militants were killed after clashes erupted during the security forces’ operation.

Two M-16 infantry rifles two glock pistols 15 Kalashnikovs three RPG-7 rocket launchers a number of night vision glasses and a large number of ammunition were seized by the security forces in the search conducted in the area after the operation ended.

A total of 263PKKmilitants have been killed since security operations began with the curfews imposed on March 14 Mardin’s Governor’s Office announced in a statement on April 18. A total of 44 soldiers were killed in the aforementioned period the statement added.