MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Turkish Military Presence in Kurdistan Border Areas “at Request of Baghdad”: Commentator

BasNews – 02/06/2018 – 16:41 – ERBIL – Entering a squad of Turkish army into the Kurdistan Region border areas “was under the request of Iraqi government to fight the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)”, a Kurdish political commentator claimed on Saturday.

“The the truth of October 16 betrayal cannot be hidden by making comments on a certain army (in Kurdistan Region),” Soran Sewkani said on his Facebook account, adding that Turkish army has several times been in Iraq with the approval of Baghdad.

A number of Turkish military vehicles on Thursday entered the village of Bardamiz, in Erbil governorate, a move which was criticized by some certain sides in the region.

“The army has not come to invade Kirkuk. It has come for one of its enemies which is the PKK,” Sewkani continued.

On Thursday, the media outlets affiliated to a certain political party in Sulaymaniya province strongly reacted to the presence of the Ankara forces in the Kurdish village, but they said nothing about the killing of a Kurdish porter by the Iranian border guards on same day in the province.

However, on October 16, last year Iraqi army I coordination with Iranian-backed militias of Hahsd al-Shaabi were led by a certain group with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) entered the Kurdish disputed territories in a military incursion.