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The Iraqi government has responded to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s threats to invade Shengal. Shengal was on the agenda in the meeting Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim el Caferi held with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yıldız. Caferi’s office issued a written statement after the meeting that said, “Iraq will not allow the presence of any forces that carry out military operations in neighboring countries on its territory.” Caferi said the Iraqi government won’t accept the Turkish forces invading the border and demanded Turkey pull their forces in the Bashika camp. Following the massacres in Afrin, Turkish President Erdoğan...

TEV-DEM (Movement for a Democratic Society) Coordination member Hanife Huseyin stated that KDP and AKP are attacking Shengal with a concept that has Rojava in the center and said: “By taking Shengal, they are aiming to throttle the Rojava Revolution and attack Rojava easily from there.” Huseyin spoke to ANF on the new anti-Kurdish concept the Turkish state and the KDP launched with the attack on Shengal. “THEY ARE ATTACKING SHENGAL IN A JOINT CONCEPT” Husên stated that the attacks on March 3 and March 14 by the KDP gangs against the Êzidî people in Shengal were developed by the joint...

KDP intelligence Parastin has handed over 80 people from “Rojava Peshmergas” that refused to fight in Shengal to Turkish intelligence MIT. During the clashes that erupted after the gangs affiliated to the South Kurdistan's KDP and the Turkish state attacked Shengal Resistance Units /YBŞ in Shengal on March 3, 80 people from the armed groups, called “Rojava Peshmergas” were arrested by KDP intelligence service Parastin. These 80 people from Rojava were abducted from the area and taken to somewhere not disclosed. Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that KDP intelligence handed over these 80 peshmergas to Turkish intelligence MIT. According to...