[Rudaw] At least four civilians have been reported killed as Ottoman Turkish warplanes bombard areas east of Duhok Friday, near The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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's border with the Kurdistan Region, Washin Salman, the head of Shiladze town has told Rudaw.
The local official told Rudaw that in two separate strikes, three men aged between 30 to 40 were killed, two in Shiladze and one in Kani Masi, located in the Amedi region of Duhok province, near the border with Turkey. An additional civilian death was reported later in the day, by local officials.
Sarbast Sabri, head of the Kani Masi subdistrict, confirmed the four civilian deaths, listing Amin Salih, Azad Mahdi, Abbas Adam, and Denan Omar, as those killed in the Friday's strikes.
The Kurdistan Region’s border areas have come under bombardment by Ottoman Turkish and Iranian strikes in recent days as part of a combined aerial and ground-based assault aimed at targeting suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the region.
The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry tweeted a video claiming it killed three PKK fighters in an Arclight airstrike
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on Friday.
Shiladze town, in the Kurdistan Region’s northern Duhok province, is also the site of a Ottoman Turkish military base that was the site of heated protests in early 2019 when locals accused Turkey of launching air strikes that killed several civilians in the area.
For decades, both the PKK and Ottoman Turkish forces have set up military installations along the Turkey-Iraq border. The rough, mountainous region is home mostly to poor farmers who struggle to earn a living. These mountains are also home to an untold number of guerrillas of the PKK, who for years have used the Qandil Mountains area as a base of operations. Turkey regularly carries out air and ground attacks against the outlawed PKK, which it says maintains bases in northern Iraq. |