About 13,000 Kurdish refugees from south-eastern Turkey live inside the UNHCR-recognised Makhmur refugee camp, which is being attacked by Turkish forces, reports Peter Boyle.
Turkish strike kills 3 civilians at Iraq refugee camp
By AFP - Jun 06,2021 - Last updated at Jun 06,2021
The Turkish army regularly conducts cross-border operations and air raids on PKK bases in northern Iraq (AFP file photo)
ERBIL, Iraq Three civilians were killed Saturday in a Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq in an area which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently threatened to clean up .
Erdogan accuses Turkey s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of using the mountainous area in Iraq s north as a springboard for its insurgency against the Turkish state.
Turkey regularly conducts cross-border operations and air raids on PKK rear bases in Iraq moves that have strained relations between the two neighbours and launched its latest offensive in April.
ARBIL, Iraq: Three civilians were killed on Saturday in a Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq in an area Turkish President recently threatened to “clean up”, a.