It’s not new that Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of training members of terrorist organizations, a political expert said.
“With the world engaged in fierce struggle against terrorism, any country supporting terrorist organizations is labeled as rogue. That is why Azerbaijan applies the dirtiest propaganda war methods to accuse Armenia of supporting terror,” the director of Yerevan branch of Institute CIS Studies, Alexander Markarov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
He reminded that Turkey used to bring similar accusations against Armenia. “Our neighbors can’t invent any new tools of information struggle,” Markarov said.
Several days ago, Iranian and Azerbaijani media circulated information that PJAK members are being trained in Armenia.
Iranian Foreign Ministry has officially refuted reports on trainings the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) allegedly conducts in Armenia.
“One should not rely on informal sources, whose information is not true to fact,” the Ministry said.
The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan is a militant Marxist Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, which has been carrying out numerous attacks in western Iran, southern Turkey and the northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live. Most experts describe PJAK as an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
In 2009, U.S. listed PJAK as a terrorist organization.
