SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Turkey has not stopped with Duhok’s Parakh massacre but also started forced eviction of the villagers in the Kurdistan Region, Community Peacemaker Teams of Iraqi Kurdistan (CPT) said on Saturday.
“Ten villages so far have been abandoned,” CPT in a statement said.
During the past 24 hours, the Turkish artilleries have targeted Duhok’s Parakh village, the location where 34 Arab holidayers were killed and injured on Wednesday, according to CPT.
“From 11 villages, only Parakh village remains populated in the area and refused to leave it, however, Turkey forces its people to abandon Parakh aimed at expanding the warzone” it continued.
Esta Media Network has learned that Parakh’s population had decided to hold a rally on Friday to stand against the Turkish aggression.
One of the organizers of the rally Yousif Saadi told Esta reporter, “Parakh’s population had decided to hold a rally on Friday, against Turkey’s deadly bombing on Wednesday that targeted our villages”, but “the authorities have blocked us to do so”.
Parakh village is located in Zakho district of Duhko province, northwest of the Kurdistan Region 10 kilometers away from Turkey’s border.
Earlier on Wednesday, the artilleries of Turkey shelled a touristic site of a resort in Parakh, killing nine Arab tourists as well as wounding 25, and authorities in Iraq including the foreign ministry and the Prime minister have explicitly accused Turkey of the attack.
