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Duhok family narrowly survives Turkish bombardment |
2021-07-01 |
[RUDAW.NET] Shrapnel caused by recent Hassan Abdullah lives with his wife and daughter in Hirore. Their house is isolated by about three kilometers from the other nearly 300 houses in the village, according to the chief of the village, Azad Adeeb. "There has been constant bombardment there all the time over the last three days," he told Rudaw English late on Tuesday. ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... "does not discriminate between the PKK and villages when it bombards. They just want to kill Kurds." The chief or mukhtar added the Only 54 of the 300 houses in the villages are inhabited, Adeeb said. Turkey launched twin military operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Duhok province late April. Hirore village is one of the areas where the fighting is intense. The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and is considered a terrorist organization by the country. Ankara regularly attacks the group at home and inside the Kurdistan Region. Abdullah told Rudaw the Holding some pieces of shrapnel he had collected from his house, he said when some warplanes left the airspace over the village, others replaced them. The bombardments have also caused several cracks in his house. "We are currently on alert and cannot even irrigate our farm. We can’t do any work while my life relies on pomegranate trees and others," said the elderly man. His wife, Habiya Mustafa, said they cannot even go out. "We can’t go out either during the day or night time. There is constant bombardment." |
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