SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Suspected Turkish attack targeted the border areas of the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil on Sunday, one was injured as the result.
Erbil’s Sidakan border area came under a suspected Turkish bombardment, resulting in one injury.
The mayor of Sidakan confirmed that one woman was mildly injured after Turkey struck the area.
Turkey regularly carries out cross-border air strikes, often with armed drones, in neighboring Iraq as part of its offensive against The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) militants based there.
The PKK launched an insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the ensuing conflict.
The PKK is regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union.
