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Turkish bombardment kills 1 civilian in Duhok: official
2019-09-26
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish warplanes attacked an alleged Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) target in the Chamanke area of Duhok late on Tuesday, killing a local shopkeeper, a district official told Rudaw.

Aland Amir, head of Chamanke district, said the bombardment took place at around 6pm local time on the area’s main road, suggesting the Ottoman Turkish jets may have been pursuing a suspected PKK vehicle.

Yusef Jamal, 19, who runs a shop at the area’s tourist resort, was killed in the strike. A number of shelters at the resort were also damaged.

"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 bombards the area on a daily basis," Amir told Rudaw.

The Ottoman Turkish military is now in the third phase of Operation Claw, and air and ground offensive against the PKK in the Haftanin-Sinat regions of Duhok province.

The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry said in a tweet that its air forces had conducted air strikes against PKK positions in Duhok and that "three PKK turbans were neutralized". It did not mention civilian casualties.

The ministry claimed in an earlier tweet that Ottoman Turkish forces had "neutralized" three more suspected PKK fighters in the Avasin area, close to Chamanke.

Turkey uses the term "neutralized" to denote adversaries captured, maimed, or killed in combat.

There was no immediate statement from the PKK confirming the attack. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
 the PKK-affiliated Roj News reported a 20-year-old civilian had been killed in a Ottoman Turkish strike.

The PKK issued a statement on Tuesday claiming its fighters had killed two Ottoman Turkish "intelligence operatives" in Turkey’s southeast Mardin province on Saturday.

In an earlier statement on Monday it also claimed to have killed 15 Ottoman Turkish soldiers in different locations both inside and outside Turkey in recent days, including one in Haftanin, according to the PKK-affiliated ANF news agency.
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