Hundreds displaced in northern Iraq following Turkish chemical attacks

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, Majid Shankali, a former member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party in parliament, said in an interview that the Turkish army was carrying out chemical attacks in northern Iraq and in Kurdish villages under the pretext of fighting PKK forces.

He went to the website المعلومه Hundreds of villagers have been displaced by Turkish military chemical attacks, he said. According to him, repeated airstrikes and, more recently, chemical attacks, which have led to the displacement of villagers and the abandonment of their agricultural lands, are leading to an economic crisis in Iraq in general and in the Kurdistan region in particular.

Majid Shankali further blamed the Iraqi central government and then Erbil for preventing the attacks, as well as protecting the displaced, and said that Baghdad and Erbil should use economic and diplomatic tools to prevent the attacks.

According to this member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Iraq imports $ 11 billion annually from Turkey, which will prevent Turkey from carrying out chemical attacks and drying up the agricultural lands of the Kurdish people in northern Iraq under the pretext of confronting the PKK.

According to Kurdish sources, Turkish military fighter jets bombed agricultural fields in the Kurdistan region last night, destroying large areas of land and poisoning hundreds of tons of crops.

“To some extent, it is true,” said an Iraqi Kurdish regional official, who did not want to be named, about some reports of Turkish military chemical attacks. For months, there have been intense clashes between the Turkish army and PKK in the areas around Erbil and near the border with Iran in Sulaymaniyah. Kurdish fighters use mountain caves, there are places near Qandil that can not be attacked with conventional weapons. “That is why they used gas to drive out the militants, and many, including PKK families, died.”

The PKK official called on the international community to visit the tunnels and examine the effects of chemical weapons still lying on rock deposits or the bodies of guerrillas killed in the attacks. .

Pakuk has also released videos and images of the attacks, sections of the bodies of those killed and survivors, as well as reports from local people who have been victims of violence. On October 11, a Kurdish-language news agency reported that at least 548 people had changed their vision, suffered sudden headaches, nosebleeds and respiratory problems after a Turkish air strike near their village.

A representative of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) recently said that the Turkish army and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces were entering the deserted villages in northern Iraq, cutting down trees in the area and handing them over to wood companies in Turkey. The Iraqi Kurdish legislator said that in the evacuated villages, Turkish forces have begun to stop, inspect and deploy armored vehicles.

The PKK, which has been at loggerheads with the Ankara government for the past 35 years, is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Turkey has long been violating the territorial integrity of northern Iraq and Syria under the pretext of confronting the PKK.

The governments of Syria and Iraq have called the presence of Turkish troops in the north of the country an occupation and a violation of their sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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