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Iraq
Iraqi parliamentarians call on Erbil, Baghdad to deter Turkish attacks
2021-08-26
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, Iraqi parliamentarians demanded the governments of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region deter Ottoman Turkish interference in the country, describing the Ottoman Turkish military operation in Iraqi territory as a "flagrant" violation.

The parliamentarians’ speech came after a series of attacks carried out by Ottoman Turkish planes Tuesday in the Penjwin area of ​​Sulaymaniyah, and a week earlier in Shingal, in addition to repeated attacks in the mountainous areas north of Erbil and Duhok.

Parliamentarian Hussein al-Aqabi, a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee in the Iraqi parliament, considered the Iraqi stance towards the Ottoman Turkish attacks, especially in Shingal (Sinjar), "shy or non-existent," adding that Mustafa al-Kadhemi’s government "condones Ottoman Turkish operations."

"It is possible for Iraq to allow limited operations in some border areas, but it is not possible to allow the presence of Ottoman Turkish soldiers in Bashiqa or the implementation of operations in Sinjar," he told North Press.

"This issue must be solved politically," he added.

A few days ago, two Iraqi tourists were killed in a Ottoman Turkish artillery attack in a tourist area north of Duhok.

On August 16, Saeed Hassan, a commander in the Shingal Resistance® Units, was killed in a Ottoman Turkish bombardment targeting the center of Shingal, followed the next day by another aerial bombardment targeting a hospital in a village in the vicinity of Sinjar Mountain, killing eight people, half of them civilians.

Al-Uqabi described Ottoman Turkish interference as a "blatant and unjustified violation, especially in Sinjar and what is related to the presence of the Ottoman Turkish military base in Bashiqa."

He called for diplomatic pressure to stop Ottoman Turkish interference in Iraqi affairs.

In this context, the two Kurdish parliamentarians in the Iraqi Parliament, Sarkot Shams al-Din and Ghalib Muhammad Ali, stressed in a joint statement seen by North Press that "the security forces, government officials’ and diplomats in Iraq must be held accountable for their silence about the violations of Ottoman Turkish forces in Iraqi territory."

The statement said that "the border guards of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the Kurdish Peshmerga located in Penjwin and Duhok stood idly by in front of the bombing of Ottoman Turkish forces and their incursion into the Iraqi territory."

On Tuesday, Ankara announced the implementation of air operations at a depth of 200 km into Iraqi territory targeting agricultural areas in the Penjwen District of Sulaymaniyah.

Pictures and video clips, published by local media, showed the destruction caused by the Ottoman Turkish attack and damage to the villagers’ property.

The two Kurdish parliamentarians called for Iraqi officials to be held accountable for their silence about "those attacks."
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