Yeni Musavat, Azerbaijan
Feb 17 2008
Mossad presents Baku with dossier about Kurds crossing Karabakh
by Sabuhi Mammadli’s
As we have already reported, the USA has for the first time raised
the PKK issue in the bilateral anti-terror talks with Azerbaijan.
Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy to the Coordinator Office of
the Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic, who visited Baku
after Ankara [on 14-15 February], held talks to this regard. As we
wrote in yesterday’s issue, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz
Azimov, who met Urbancic, also said that the PKK started to threaten
Azerbaijan.
[Passage omitted: Yeni Musavat has published a series of reports
about the PKK in Azerbaijan]
The start of discussions about the PKK by US officials in Azerbaijan
indicates that the situation is more serious than we expected. As
Urbancic noted, as a result of operations carried out by the Turkish
armed forces, the PKK, which came under the heaviest strikes and
suffered losses, has started to change the places where they
administer and locate themselves. Kurdish terrorists who cross the
Turkish-Armenian borders in plain clothes have started to resettle in
Armenia’s Goris [in Syunik Region], Masis [in Ararat Region] and
Gugark and Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli and Lacin districts under Armenian
occupation. A total of 56 terrorists have made for Lacin so far.
[Passage omitted: quote from Israeli newspaper saying that the PKK
has started to set up its camps in Karabakh, including Lacin and
Fuzuli districts]
Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, has already submitted reports
to Ankara and Baku about the movement of the PKK [members] from
Turkey to Armenia, Nagornyy Karabakh and occupied Azerbaijani
districts.
Along with Turkish territories, Iran’s territory is also being used
actively for the movement of the PKK to Armenia. Moreover, the Kurds
who have moved to Karabakh and Armenia are immediately being given
IDs confirming their Armenian registration and citizenship.
[translated from Azeri]