MAXIME AZADI, — At least five Turkish commandos were killed in clashes with the PJAK on Iranian soil during the military operations launched by the Iranian army on the border, said a Kurdish militia.
New evidence strengthens the suspicion of the involvement of Turkish commandos led operations against the PJAK, the Free Life Party of Kurdistan, from July 16 throughout the Iraqi-Iranian.
“I’ve seen my eyes,” said Suleiman Jahid, a member of local militia created by the Iranian authorities to counter the guerrillas.
“They took the bodies of five soldiers in the village of Shaitan Gire, in the border region of Piranshar, and there were flags on their uniforms. Their hands were blue, their hearts and their heads were traces of bullets. These bodies were transported in freezer truck,” he added that Kurdish militiaman who said he himself participated in operations in the regions of Shaho and Hewraman, in East Kurdistan.
He said the Iranian and Turkish troops are conducting joint operations against the PJAK. “The Kalashnikov bullets and mortar shells 120mm belonging to the Turkish state were taken to the village of Shaitan Gire four trucks in Iran. They also contained many Turkish arms. Canned for Iranian soldiers also come from Turkey.”
The July 21, Kurdish sources have said that at least 300 Turkish commandos were passed to the Iranian border on Esendere, in the province of Hakkari (North Kurdistan). The entry of twenty other Turkish tanks on Iranian soil was reported July 25.
The Iranian regime and the Turkish authorities have made no statement so far on this anti-Kurdish cooperation and always keep quiet about their losses.
While the Iranian operations and bombing continue, the rejection of war and desertions of troops are growing and some of them have paid with their lives.
Qelereshi Hassan, a herdsman of the village in the region of Serdesht, a Kurdish city near the Iraqi border, was killed July 28 by soldiers for refusing to go to war against PJAK, according to local sources.
In this unjustified war against the PJAK, which had no military action for over a year, several Iranian Revolution Guards have fled, especially in areas of Serdesht and Piranshar, indicate the sources said.
At least three Kurdish civilians, including a ten year old child, were killed by shelling the villages of Iranian Hajj Omran and Sidekan, in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan since the start of the military operation. Eleven other civilians were injured, 35 villages damaged and hundreds of people displaced, according to Kurdish authorities.