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Jun 05 2021 03:24 Gmt+3 Last Updated On: Jun 05 2021 03:35 Gmt+3 A suspected Turkish airstrike targeted Iraq’s Makhmour refugee camp on Saturday, mere days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to do so. According to a preliminary report from the Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw, the strike left at least three people dead. Rudaw cited Sirwan Barzani, commander of Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the area, to confirm the three deaths. A resident of Makhmour camp earlier told the Kurdish outlet that the strike killed at least one person and injured another. On Tuesday, Erdoğan ...

Turkey has had a longstanding conflict with the Kurdish people for decades. The Kurds, an ancient ethnic group residing in the border region between modern

KURDISH villagers appealed to the world to raise their voices against Turkey’s genocidal attacks today, describing the latest invasion in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as “the war you don’t see.” Speaking to the Morning Star from the village of Keste, the scene of heavy fighting between Turkish soldiers and guerilla fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Heval Ako said that he and his family were under constant bombardment. “It is very bad here. We are under daily attacks and bombings. Many people have left, but I cannot. I have my family and animals ...

“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 (...

HUNDREDS of Kurdish villagers have been forced to flee their homes in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq due to Turkish bombing — and are being replaced by jihadists imported from Syria, the Star was told today. An agricultural worker from Barwari Bala in the mountainous Duhok province, which borders Turkey, told the Morning Star that he had abandoned his land and home due to the intensity of the aerial bombardment. “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 le...