Posted on 08/12/2019 6:20:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Around 10 Christian villages in the northern Kurdistan Region have been evacuated due to frequent and increasing Turkish bombings targeting apparent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions.
Rudaw visited Christian villages in the Kani Masi District, where some homes are locked up and abandoned. There are 25 such villages in the district, including 10 or so evacuated ones, according to district officials. One local told Rudaw the PKK should leave the area.
“PKK better to go back to Turkey, and fight against the Turkish army inside Turkey, and leave Kurdistan region for peace,” said Shlimon Aseel from the village of Duri, where 15 of the 40 homes have been evacuated.
The PKK is a Kurdish militant group that has fought the Turkish state for decades for greater autonomy for Turkey’s Kurds. Ankara considers the PKK a terrorist group and regularly strikes apparent targets of the group in the Kurdistan Region. The PKK is based in the Qandil mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border.
PKK fighters are present in the areas around the city of Amedi where Kani Masi is. The area is in Duhok Province and close to the Turkish border. Most Christians there identify as ethnic Assyrians.
Sarbast Sabri, the head of Kani Masi District, says the Turkish airstrikes hit the district on a daily basis, and negatively impact the lives of civilians.
“Civilians in the area are living in continuous panic, due to the Turkish bombardments and PKK movements in the areas of Kani Masi,” he told Rudaw
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A lot of eastern Turkey is populated by Kurds. If they got their own state, parts of Turkey and Iran could be included. Obviously neither of those two states wants that.
I despise the Erdogan Turks! They’ve gotten away for years with harboring Al Qaeda & ISIS Islamists and financially enabling them. Meanwhile, they ethnically cleanse & murder Kurds and other perceived enemies.
They should no longer be in NATO, IMHO.
It isn’t as if they are somehow different than previous Turks.
Arm the Kurds and recognize Kurdistan.
FYI
Let’s hear it for our fellow NATO member!!!!!
Thank you.
Despise Erdoooo, Bump!
Rudaw is based in Iraq. There are both Syriac and Chaldean Christians in Iraq. They were mostly Assyrian in ancestry. But, they are divided over leadership issues. I’ve been caught in the middle by the 2 factions before.
In Syria the Syriac Christians are not divided. They were an integral part of the YPG from the beginning.
They are very good people. They are respected. They took heavy losses in battle in Raqqa and in the Deir Ezzor campaign.
Re-enactment of the Armenian Genocide:
Muslim Turks kill Christians.
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