...KABOOM!...
Haider Shasho, commander of the Ezidikhan Protection Forces, told Rudaw the strike hit a vehicle near Mount Shingal killing both passengers.
Rojnews, an outlet affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), blamed
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
. It did not provide any casualty figures.
Ankara often targets Shingal on the grounds of hitting PKK forces which rule Shingal through its offshoots, mainly the Shingal Resistance® Units (YBS).
Shingal, the Yezidi homeland, is part of the disputed areas claimed by Baghdad and Erbil. In addition to the Ezidikhan Protection Forces, the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga, Iraqi security forces, and pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
militias control parts of the district.
Turkey has not commented on the incident.