Iraq: Hundreds of Kurdish villagers flee Turkish bombs as jihadists take their homes
“Every day, every night, for the past weeks we are being bombed. Our lands are being destroyed: we cannot grow our crops,” he said. “Nearly all of us have left — there is nothing for us. Our future is being destroyed, and they give our homes to Daesh [Isis].” “We are civilians: farmers, children. Why are they doing this? The world does nothing to help because we are Kurds. Everyone wants to kill us.” He insisted that there had been no guerilla fighters in the villages — Turkey’s pretext for invasion — but added that the people supported the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (...