SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A member of Kurdish forces was killed in clashes with a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region’s district of Amedi late on Sunday, the ministry of Peshmerga said.
Peshmerga forces set up a checkpoint in the village of Girdgashi in Amedi in northeast of Duhok on Sunday. The Kurdish forces opened fire at a convoy of the PKK convoy passing through the checkpoint.
Sources said the Kurdish forces opened fire after the PKK fighters didn’t stop at the checkpoint.
The Region’s Ministry of Peshmerga said in a post to its official Facebook page that First Lieutenant Abdulrahman Amin Sheikh Musa was killed after PKK fighters attacked the checkpoint.
Meanwhile, a source from the Peshmerga ministry told Esta Media Network that no Peshmerga brigades were deployed to the area on Sunday night.
“No brigades of the 14 brigades in the Peshmerga Ministry were sent to the area where the clashes erupted,” said the source, who spoke under condition of anonymity.
People familiar with the matter said the person who was killed was a Kurdish resident of Turkey, without providing further details.
Deputy head of Kurdistan Parliament’s Peshmerga committee Osman Karim Swara told Esta Media Network that a person “must hold Iraqi nationality and its parents must also be Iraqis” in order to become a Peshmerga.
PKK-affiliated media reported on Sunday that three members of the group were wounded in the clashes with Kurdish forces in Amedi.
