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2020-04-16 Iraq
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Turkey carries out multiple strikes in northern Iraq: officials
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[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s have killed three civilians in Makhmour and destroyed a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) shelter in Rawanduz in two separate attacks on Wednesday, according to local officials.
"Ottoman Turkish warplanes targeted a PKK shelter in Zeni Warte area in Rawanduz district, which is only 200 meters away from the headquarters of the Peshmerga 7th brigade," claimed Kwistan Ahmed, the head of Rawanduz district.
The shelter was, according to Ahmed, established by PKK guerrillas a week ago between two telecommunication towers.
"The bombardment also resulted in destroying two telecommunication towers that belong to Korek Telecom and Asia cell," Ahmed said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
claims that four PKK members were killed in the strike in Rawanduz, which is to the northeast or Erbil.
"4 PKK murderous Moslems neutralized by an air operation in Qandil in northern Iraq. Our operations will continue until the last terrorist is neutralized," Turkey’s defense ministry tweeted on Wednesday.
Firat News Agency (ANF), a news portal with close ties to the PKK, reported aerial attacks by Ottoman Turkish warplanes in the area, but did not claim any damage on PKK targets.
A commander of the 7th brigade of Peshmerga forces, who spoke with Rudaw on the condition of anonymity, said that the Ottoman Turkish bombardment of Zeni Warti on Wednesday caused light injuries to four Peshmerga fighters belonging to the 7th brigade.
"Four Peshmerga in our brigade [...] sustained minor injuries," the commander said.
According to Bakhtiyar Qadir, a Rudaw news hound in Rawanduz, two Ottoman Turkish warplanes also targeted areas of Zeni Warti just hours before on Tuesday night.
MAKHMOUR STRIKE
PKK affiliated-media outlet Roj News reported on Wednesday that Ottoman Turkish warplanes have also targeted an area in Makhmour district, sixty kilometres southwest of Erbil city.
Three non-combatants were killed in the Ottoman Turkish airstrikes, Bewar Amin, the head of Makhmour Camp’s media department, told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
"Today around 13:00, Ottoman Turkish warplanes conducted airstrikes outside of Makhmour camp," Amin claimed.
"Three civilian women were killed by the Ottoman Turkish airstrike today near Makhmour camp," Bewar said. "Two women were killed immediately by the airstrikes, and another woman succumbed to her grave injuries and passed away later on."
Makhmour camp hosts more than 12,000 Kurdish refugees who fled persecution by the Ottoman Turkish state, largely in the 1990s. The camp has a governing council. An armed force, the Makhmour Protection Units, was established in 2014 when ISIS Death Eaters attacked the area. The units are believed to have ties to the PKK.
Last December, an airstrike on the camp killed three and injured seven.
The PKK is headquartered in the Qandil mountains in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, near the border with Turkey and Iran.
Turkey routinely launches land and air operations against the group within its borders, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), as well territories disputed between the KRI and Iraq's central government, such as Shingal and Makhmour. It also regularly targets Kurdish forces in northern Syria, accusing them of ties with the PKK. 
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