Ministry of National Defense: One of our soldiers was martyred as a result of fire opened by the Iranian side

Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense said contract infantry soldier Yusuf Sait Ünlü was killed on Oct. 31 along the Turkey-Iran border during an intervention against an illegal crossing, and that the fatal shot is assessed to have come from the Iranian side. The ministry said Iranian authorities have opened both judicial and administrative investigations into the incident. The death puts renewed focus on border security and military coordination between the two neighbors. What to watch next is whether the parallel Turkish and Iranian inquiries converge on the shot’s origin and whether the two governments announce joint border measures.