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Iraqi Kurdistan calls for apology from Turkey
| ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq‘, — Lawmakers in Iraqi Kurdistan demanded Friday that neighboring Turkey apologize for a week of airstrikes across their border and called for a closure of Turkish military bases inside Iraqi Kurdish territory. Tensions have flared between Turkey and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region after local officials reported a Turkish airstrike killedseven civilians Sunday, triggering protests in the Kurdish capital of Erbil and other towns.Turkey launched its first strikes in more than a year on suspected Kurdish PKK rebel bases in Iraqi Kurdistan after more than 40 members of its security forces were killed in Turkey over the last month in PKK assaults. |  Iraq’s Kurdistan parliament, Erbil. |
| There has been no official comment from Turkey on the civilian deaths. But Iraq’s central government has summoned the Turkish ambassador to demand an end to airstrikes and the regional Kurdish government condemned the deaths.“We demand an end to the presence of Turkish military bases and their intelligence agencies in Kurdistan’s territory,” the Iraqi Kurdistan parliament said in a statement. “We demand the Turkish government make a formal apology to the people and the Kurdistan government.” | |
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