Ihsan Chalabi, Sidakan’s mayor, told Rudaw’s Bakhtiyar Qadir that
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...struck the borders of the area on Sunday afternoon, adding that a woman by the name of Sharmin Asaad, 30, was injured as a result of the attack.
Asaad’s wounds were minor and she was treated in Sidakan, the mayor added.
Turkey frequently attacks Sidakan and other areas on its southern borders with the Kurdistan Region under the pretext of targeting position of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
In April, Turkey launched a fresh phase in a series of anti-PKK operations. The operation, dubbed Claw-Lock, is an air and ground assault that heavily focuses on mountainous border areas where the gang maintains a presence.
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The decades-long conflict between Turkey and the PKK has left 212 villages across Erbil province abandoned, with a staggering total of 504 abandoned villages across the entire Kurdistan Region.