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Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan-funded daily Aso
3 December 2007
PKK REPORTEDLY TO MOVE CAMPS FROM NORTHERN IRAQ TO NAGORNYY-KARABAKH
by Sarkawt Latif: The Armenian government helps them and the Azeri is
against them - the PKK moves its camps to the Azerbaijan border area
The PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] is moving more than 10 camps from
Qandil [mountain range in Iraqi Kurdistan] to the Azerbaijan border
area. The government of Azerbaijan is not prepared to support them. A
number of intelligence reports reveal that more than 450 PKK gunmen
are hiding in northern Iraq.
Following the [Iraqi] Kurdistan regional government's blockade of the
border areas with a view to preventing aid to reach the PKK, the
Turkish Today's Zaman web site reported that many intelligence
reports had revealed that the PKK planned to move 10 of its camps,
previously established in the Qandil mountain range in the border
areas of the Kurdistan Region, to the Azerbaijan border areas,
specifically to the areas close to the Turkish border. According to
the web site report, 450 [as published] PKK gunmen are in hiding in
the Qandil mountain range, although they had said that they were
evacuating the mountains. The reports also says that a number of PKK
gunmen have visited 12 Kurdish villages in the Nagorno-Karabakh
region on the Azerbaijan border and asked the villagers to help them.
The Turkish Today's Zaman web site also reported that some
intelligence information, which has become available to security
officials, reported that a PKK gunman had escaped from Charchala camp
a few days ago and surrendered to the Turkish forces, and has given
them important information on the PKK and their plan to move their
camps to the Azerbaijan border area.
In another development, the Azerbaijan authorities have expressed
their readiness to assist the Turkish security forces attack the PKK
gunmen and made clear that they were not prepared to shelter the PKK.
In that context, Azeri officials have given some important
information to Turkey regarding the movements of the PKK gunmen in
the border areas and have told them that a large number of PKK
officials had Turkish passports and used them to pass through their
country's territory.
A senior official at the Azeri Justice Ministry has said that his
ministry planned to issue an order to evict the PKK gunmen, ban the
party and prevent anyone from helping them.
Secretary-General of the Azeri-Turkish Cooperation Commission
Mohammad Azeri Turk strongly criticized the Armenian authorities for
their attempts to settle the PKK in the Nagorno-Karabakh region
between Azerbaijan and Armenia, specifically in the towns of Shusha,
Lachin and Fuzuli. He told Today's Zaman: These towns will be
separated from Azerbaijan if they fall into the hands or become the
property of the PKK forces.
The Azeri consul in the Turkish eastern city of Kars, Hasan Sultan
Oglu told Anatolia news agency: At the moment there is only one
country in the region, where the PKK may seek and be given refuge,
which is Armenia. We have received information that some PKK
officials have visited Armenia for talks with the country's officials
with a view to settling their gunmen in the Nagorno-Karabakh region
and there are rumours that they have reached an agreement. Another
factor that may encourage the PKK gunmen to move to that region is
because there is a large number of Kurdish villages in the area which
will be of great help to the gunmen.
In another development, the German government has handed over two
Kurdish citizens of Turkey to the Turkish government and plans to
hand over some more people who are identified by Turkey as PKK
members and accused of terrorist acts. The Turkish justice minister
has said: Turkey has been asking for the extradition of those two
people who are guilty of committing terrorist acts in Turkey, but the
German judicial authorities kept them under detention in Germany
because of the existence of capital punishment in Turkey. It has been
decided that scores of other criminals will be handed to Turkey.
Translated from Kurdish
3 December 2007
PKK REPORTEDLY TO MOVE CAMPS FROM NORTHERN IRAQ TO NAGORNYY-KARABAKH
by Sarkawt Latif: The Armenian government helps them and the Azeri is
against them - the PKK moves its camps to the Azerbaijan border area
The PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] is moving more than 10 camps from
Qandil [mountain range in Iraqi Kurdistan] to the Azerbaijan border
area. The government of Azerbaijan is not prepared to support them. A
number of intelligence reports reveal that more than 450 PKK gunmen
are hiding in northern Iraq.
Following the [Iraqi] Kurdistan regional government's blockade of the
border areas with a view to preventing aid to reach the PKK, the
Turkish Today's Zaman web site reported that many intelligence
reports had revealed that the PKK planned to move 10 of its camps,
previously established in the Qandil mountain range in the border
areas of the Kurdistan Region, to the Azerbaijan border areas,
specifically to the areas close to the Turkish border. According to
the web site report, 450 [as published] PKK gunmen are in hiding in
the Qandil mountain range, although they had said that they were
evacuating the mountains. The reports also says that a number of PKK
gunmen have visited 12 Kurdish villages in the Nagorno-Karabakh
region on the Azerbaijan border and asked the villagers to help them.
The Turkish Today's Zaman web site also reported that some
intelligence information, which has become available to security
officials, reported that a PKK gunman had escaped from Charchala camp
a few days ago and surrendered to the Turkish forces, and has given
them important information on the PKK and their plan to move their
camps to the Azerbaijan border area.
In another development, the Azerbaijan authorities have expressed
their readiness to assist the Turkish security forces attack the PKK
gunmen and made clear that they were not prepared to shelter the PKK.
In that context, Azeri officials have given some important
information to Turkey regarding the movements of the PKK gunmen in
the border areas and have told them that a large number of PKK
officials had Turkish passports and used them to pass through their
country's territory.
A senior official at the Azeri Justice Ministry has said that his
ministry planned to issue an order to evict the PKK gunmen, ban the
party and prevent anyone from helping them.
Secretary-General of the Azeri-Turkish Cooperation Commission
Mohammad Azeri Turk strongly criticized the Armenian authorities for
their attempts to settle the PKK in the Nagorno-Karabakh region
between Azerbaijan and Armenia, specifically in the towns of Shusha,
Lachin and Fuzuli. He told Today's Zaman: These towns will be
separated from Azerbaijan if they fall into the hands or become the
property of the PKK forces.
The Azeri consul in the Turkish eastern city of Kars, Hasan Sultan
Oglu told Anatolia news agency: At the moment there is only one
country in the region, where the PKK may seek and be given refuge,
which is Armenia. We have received information that some PKK
officials have visited Armenia for talks with the country's officials
with a view to settling their gunmen in the Nagorno-Karabakh region
and there are rumours that they have reached an agreement. Another
factor that may encourage the PKK gunmen to move to that region is
because there is a large number of Kurdish villages in the area which
will be of great help to the gunmen.
In another development, the German government has handed over two
Kurdish citizens of Turkey to the Turkish government and plans to
hand over some more people who are identified by Turkey as PKK
members and accused of terrorist acts. The Turkish justice minister
has said: Turkey has been asking for the extradition of those two
people who are guilty of committing terrorist acts in Turkey, but the
German judicial authorities kept them under detention in Germany
because of the existence of capital punishment in Turkey. It has been
decided that scores of other criminals will be handed to Turkey.
Translated from Kurdish