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Turkish jets bomb within kilometres of Sidakan town
2019-01-21
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish jets on Sunday bombed a village in the Sidakan area, very close to town, the mayor said. This is the first time in 15 years The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 has struck so close to the populated town.

"At 5:20 pm today, Ottoman Turkish military jets intensely bombarded Shikan village in the Sidakan area," Ihsan Chalabi, mayor of Sidakan, told Rudaw.

There were no casualties or significant damage in three rounds of bombardments, he said.

"In the past 15 years of military jet strikes, it the first time that this area, close to the centre of Sidakan town, was bombarded," added the mayor.

Shikan is just three kilometers from the centre of Sidakan.

Turkey regularly carried out Arclight airstrikes against alleged PKK positions in the Kurdistan Region mountains.

They usually target sparsely populated areas, but years of bombing have pushed hundreds of villagers out of their homes, made pastures off limits, and destroyed forests.
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