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Iraq “firmly” condemns the bombing attacks by Iran and Turkey against Iraqi Kurdistan

Archive – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al Sudani – IRAQI PARLIAMENT / XINHUA NEWS / CONTACT PHOTO

MADRID, Nov. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Iraq has “firmly” condemned the recent bombardments by Turkey and Iraq against the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan (north), after the attacks in recent days against bases of Kurdish groups present in the area.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has indicated that “the repeated attacks carried out by Iranian and Turkish forces with missiles and drones against the Kurdistan region are a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and an act that contravenes international conventions and laws that regulate relations between countries”.

Thus, a statement published on its website has indicated that these bombings “also violate the principle of good neighborliness, which should be a reason to seek participatory security at the service of all parties.”

“The Government of Iraq stresses that the territories of Iraq are not a base or corridor to cause harm to any of the neighboring countries and rejects that Iraq is a terrain for conflict and settling accounts between external parties,” the Ministry of Iraqi Foreign.

Baghdad’s criticism comes after the latest attacks by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard against bases and headquarters of Kurdish opposition groups and Turkey’s bombardments against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the aforementioned semi-autonomous region.

Iranian authorities have accused Kurdish opposition groups of fueling recent protests in the country over Amini’s death, which have been centered in the Kurdistan region. Iran has some seven million Kurds, which represents about ten percent of its population. Most live in the Kurdistan region, located in the northwest of the country, next to the border with Iraq.

For its part, Turkey has carried out bombardments for months against PKK bases in the area and has intensified its offensive after the attack perpetrated on November 13 in Istanbul, which left six dead. Ankara has accused the Kurdish group of the event, which has disassociated itself from it.

In this sense, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warned on Monday of the possible start of a ground operation in Syria and Iraq to combat the PKK and the Kurdish-Syrian militia People’s Protection Units (YPG), which maintains ties with the aforementioned group and that it is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

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