Media reports: Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters block Igdir-Nakhijevan road and put lorry on fire
Fighters from the organization Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) blocked the road from Igdir to Nakhijevan at the village Tashburun on July 17. The PKK fighters stopped a lorry belonging to a private company on the road, made the driver get out and pouring petrol all over the lorry, burnt it up, the Turkish information agency Anadolu reports, according to Minval.az.
According to the report, security forces did not find the PKK fighters on the scene and large-scale search operation was initiated in the district.
Publika.az reports that after setting the lorry on fire, the PKK fighters got on a black bus and fled the scene of the incident. Fire engines were called to the scene of the incident to put out the fire. The lorry completely burnt. The road remained blocked for some time because of the fire. The witnesses said the PKK fighters wore black masks, according to Publika.az.
In 2013, the Azerbaijani media reported that the Russia-based ex-staffer of the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security, Ibrahim Musayev, said that Azerbaijan provided arms to the Kurdish militants in Turkey. Musayev said he had proofs that vehicles with ammunition and arms for the Kurdish militants were 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.”
Related:
Iranian general: Republic of Azerbaijan has turned into regional terrorism center
In Syria, terrorists of Azerbaijani camp fight against Kurds
Newsfeed
Videos
Artur Vanetsyan: I think you'll see me more often at various events in future
