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Iraq
Turkey bombs Makhmour camp, killing three: Peshmerga commander
2021-06-06
[Rudaw] Three people were killed in a suspected Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
near Makhmour camp in northern Iraq on Saturday afternoon.

"It was an airstrike and took place near Makhmour refugee camp. According to confirmed information, three people have died," Sirwan Barzani, commander of Peshmerga forces on the Makhmour-Gwer front, told Rudaw.

A resident of the camp, who asked to be identified only as Ahmed, had earlier told Rudaw that Ottoman Turkish air forces bombed the camp, killing at least one person and injuring a second.

Makhmour camp hosts more than 12,000 Kurdish refugees who fled persecution by the Ottoman Turkish state, mainly in the 1990s. It is located in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.

Ankara believes the camp has close ties with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish group that is on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s terror list. The PKK, which fights for greater rights for Kurds in Turkey, has its headquarters in the Kurdistan Region’s Qandil mountains.

Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
told state-owned TRT on Wednesday their next target after Qandil is Makhmour.

"Makhmour is almost the incubation nest of Qandil. This brood nest is flourishing in the city centre. If we do not go after this, this brood nest will continue to produce," he said. "We care about Makhmour as much as Qandil."

Turkey has carried out airstrikes against the camp in the past. The Ottoman Turkish military is currently conducting two operations against the PKK in northern Duhok province.

The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry has not immediately commented on the suspected airstrike.
Al Ahram adds:
Three non-combatants were killed Saturday in a Ottoman Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq in an area Ottoman Turkish President recently threatened to "clean up", a Kurdish politician said.

"Three non-combatants were killed and two maimed," Rashad Galali, a Kurdish MP from Makhmur, told AFP, adding that the strike targeted "a kindergarten near a school" in the camp that houses Kurdish refugees from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
.
Related:
Makhmour camp: 2021-06-03 Erdogan Says Turkey Could Target Refugee Camp Deep Inside Iraq
Makhmour camp: 2020-06-16 Iraq denounces airspace penetration by Turkish aircraft targeting refugee camp near Makhmur and Sinjar
Makhmour camp: 2020-04-16 Turkey carries out multiple strikes in northern Iraq: officials
Related:
Qandil: 2021-06-03 Erdogan Says Turkey Could Target Refugee Camp Deep Inside Iraq
Qandil: 2021-05-01 Ankara seeks to limit PKK movement with new Duhok military base: minister
Qandil: 2021-04-30 Turkish forces advance towards Amedi village: mayor
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