The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) announced that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had no connection with the assassination of a former high-ranking intelligence official of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on 23 July.
The statement came in response to an announcement by the Kurdistan Region Security Council on Friday accusing the PKK of being responsible for the assassination. The Security Council said that the group had attached a bomb beneath the car of the former Parastin [Intelligence Agency of the KRG] official Muhammed Mirza Sindi earlier that day, and later detonated it by a remote control.
Sindi was killed on 23 July in the Zakho (Zaxo) district of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan, when when the vehicle he was travelling in was engulfed by a explosion.
On 29 July, the People’s Defence Forces (HPG), the military wing of the PKK, released a statement denying any involvement in the assassination.
The KCK accused the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of disseminating false statements in the name of the Security Council, asserting that the accusations had no basis.
They further accused the KDP of directing these allegations at the PKK in an attempt to cover up the crimes of the Turkish government and its National Intelligence Organisation (MİT).
