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The commanders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters use mobile numbers that belong to Azerbaijanis living in Iran, according to the Azerbaijani news portal Haqqin.az.

Haqqin.az cites the Turkish newspaper Yeni Çağ as reporting that according to the Turkish intelligence, the intelligence agencies of the country managed to finds facts of warlords using Iranian mobile operators’ numbers registered under the names of the Azerbaijani citizens.

This way, the PKK warlords escape the Turkish intelligence agencies’ monitoring, according to the report.

In 2013, the Azerbaijani media reported that the Russia-based ex-staffer of the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security, Ibrahim Musayev, said that Azerbaijan provides arms to the Kurdish militants in Turkey. Musayev said he had proofs that vehicles with ammunition and arms for the Kurdish militants are regularly sent to Turkey through the Nakhijevani border.

Supporters of Kurdish radicals, Azerbaijani citizens Namig Nasibov and Elnur Alakbarov, who had organized the arson of a mosque, were recently condemned in Azerbaijan. Namig Nasibov was found out to have departed to a Saudi Arabia territory under PKK control in August-September of 2014, and taken part in the fights there. In addition, three Azerbaijani students lost in Turkey in April recently joined PKK. According to the Turkish media reports, a video appeared on the net showing Azerbaijani students giving interviews with assault rifles in their hands and calling all their acquaintances to “struggle for international socialism.”

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