11-01-2010
Baghdad - On Thursday, Turkish artillery started to bomb Kurdish border regions. A Iraqi MP criticized the bombings of both Iran and Turkey. “Turkey bombed again some border villages in Iraqi Kurdistan,” Iraqi MP Mahmud Othman of the Kurdistan Alliance said. “It’s about time that this and Iranian unfounded cross-border bombings stop.” Earlier the Iraqi MP also called on Iran to withdraw from the Fakka oilfields completely, after they were occupied by the Iranian military forces. Othman emphasized that the Iraqi army should ‘defend sovereignty in face of outside intervention, as in the constitution’. Iran and Turkey often bomb the border regions of the Kurdistan region, due to the presence of rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and it’s Iranian offshoot PJAK. Human rights organizations have often criticized the bombings, because Kurdish and Christian villages were hit by the shelling. A source told PUKmedia, that at late Thursday January 7, the Turkish artillery started to bomb the borders areas of Naheel, Nero, Rikan and Dosky in Duhok Province. The news was also confirmed by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that said the ‘Zap/Medya areas’ were bombed with mortars. © Rudaw
