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2016-06-08 Iraq
New Turkish air strikes target PKK bases, Kurdish villages
[RUDAW.NET] Turkish warplanes carried out a number of Arclight airstrikes Monday night in the mountains of Sidakan, targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions, and putting the lives of many local villagers in danger.

According to the mayor of Sidakan, Karwan Karim Khan, two warplanes carried out four air strikes in the Bradost area.

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has increased Arclight airstrikes against PKK bases in the remote mountain region in recent months, since the resumption of festivities with the army in several cities in the Kurdish areas of Turkey.

Rural life has been badly affected by the bombings particularly in the current farming and harvesting season.

"We have no other choice but to work on other people's farms, sharing what we produce fifty-fifty,"Ali Shirani a Kurdish farmer who recently fled his own village to Turkish bombings told Rudaw.

The Amedi region has been also affected by the Arclight airstrikes where some farmers have been forced to abandon their villages.

According to local authorities, some 440 villages in the Amedi and Duhok regions have been unable to farm and raise their livestock due to the bombings.
Posted by Fred 2016-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
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