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Erdoğan's military occupation of Iraq continues expanding, with more and more troops and equipment being sent every night in the latest offensive of the imperialist war of aggression, now also openly paroling villages of the Duhok Governorate of Iraq as if it was theirs.
Jun 25, 2024 at 9:24amWeb
Show threadb9AcEJun 26, 2024

Turkey's military occupation of northern Iraq/southern Kurdistan now has set up a checkpoint on the road to check identities of the people between two locations (Berwarî and Amedi) reports StêrkTV.
Probably checking for the resistance or people they can torture for such information.

The "Kurdistan Region of Iraq" government held by Erdoğan's quisling-party in the area, KDP, ignores and has previously aided the invasion,
while the federal government is held hostage by the KDP holding the ability to cause it to fall, as well as having grabbed key positions like Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq.

Show threadb9AcEJun 28, 2024

"The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) have set up checkpoints 35km within the territory of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), stopping and interrogating local traffic while distributing leaflets thanking them for their cooperation. [...]

[...] in addition to deploying hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles around the Matina region in Duhok province, a high-ranking Turkish delegation is likely to visit Baghdad. In the past 10 days, Turkey has deployed 300 tanks and armoured vehicles to Iraqi Kurdistan."
https://medyanews.net/turkish-soldiers-set-up-checkpoints-deep-in-iraqi-kurdistan/

Show threadb9AcEJun 29, 2024

"While images from the ground confirm the media reports that Turkish troops have set up checkpoints in northern Iraq, reports are coming through of further activity and violations by the occupying army in the region.

Citing local sources, Rojnews agency reported on Saturday that Turkish soldiers raided the village of Dergelê in Kanî Masî town of Duhok last night. The occupiers threatened the villagers and told them to evacuate the village within 24 hours."

More on this surge of Erdoğan's war of aggression in S Kurdistan/N Iraq:
https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/turkish-soldiers-raid-and-evacuate-villages-in-south-kurdistan-74034

Turkish soldiers raid and evacuate villages in South Kurdistan

The Turkish state, which has been carrying out invasion attacks and establishing hundreds of military points in South Kurdistan for years, has recently deployed more than 300 armoured vehicles and ...

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Show threadb9AcEJul 1, 2024
"Turkish military forces have escalated their attacks in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), bombing an Assyrian village and destroying a church, sparking outrage and calls for intervention"
https://medyanews.net/turkish-military-escalates-attacks-in-iraqi-kurdistan-destroys-assyrian-church/
Show threadb9AcEJul 4, 2024
Even more tanks and other armored vehicles of the invading army of Turkey sent into the Duhok Governorate of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the night to today.
Show threadb9AcEJul 4, 2024
"Residents call for emergency aid as Turkey bombs a village in Duhok countryside [S Kurdistan/N Iraq]"
https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/residents-call-for-emergency-aid-as-turkey-bombs-a-village-in-duhok-74105
Residents call for emergency aid as Turkey bombs a village in Duhok countryside

Local sources reported that the Turkish army bombarded the village of Sergelê in Amadiya district of Duhok on Thursday.According to reports, a large-scale fire broke out in the area as a result o...

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Show threadb9AcEJul 4, 2024

"Over the last week Turkey has moved thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks and military vehicles into Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
In a statement, the US State Department [...] urged Turkey to protect civilians and respect Iraqi sovereignty."
https://medyanews.net/us-state-department-spokesperson-urges-turkey-to-respect-iraqi-sovereignty/
Mkaay, cool, maybe stop arming https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/111913995609586917 the the rebranded al-Qaeda allied and ISIL collaborating aggressor.

Also, WTF do you mean "ongoing threat posed by the PKK"?!?
How is anyone a "threat" by being attacked with chemical warfare while remaining in the areas of officially Iraq where they had signed agreement with Turkey and Iraq to relocate to as part of the ceasefire agreement that Erdoğan unilaterally broke by entirely unprovoked invading and occupying S Kurdistan/N Iraq committing many war crimes well documented on average several times daily while the PKK's forces remain adamant in following the Geneva Conventions since 1995. Are you on meth?

Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024
Night to today, Erdoğan's major invasion of the Duhok Province in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq continued with yet another large movement of APCs and infantry. Presumably also battle tanks as during recently previous nights.
In mountainous areas transport helicopter, air assault, continues to be used for the imperialist war of aggression invasion instead.
Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024

Turkey's war of aggression invasion army in S Kurdistan/N Iraq burns villages and prevented the locals from extinguishing the fires.
https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/turkish-army-burns-villages-in-south-kurdistan-74133

This follows that army's previous practice of setting e.g. crop fields on fire with bombardment from their >100 military occupation forts in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to then shoot at any of the locals coming to rescue their own livelihood, or similar using flares (long- and intense-burning fires) dropped from low-flying helicopters, or simply having its soldiers or auxiliary forces go do the crop- and general nature-arson directly by hand, which are methods they use also within Erdoğan's civil war against the Kurdish majority areas under the regime.

All of that being explicitly defined specific war crimes.

Turkish army burns villages in South Kurdistan

The attacks of the occupying Turkish army, which have intensified in recent days, target not only the guerrilla areas but the whole of southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).While the villages of Der...

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Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024
"US gives de-facto green light to Turkey’s occupation of Kurdistan Region of Iraq"
https://medyanews.net/us-gives-de-facto-green-light-to-turkeys-occupation-of-kurdistan-region-of-iraq/
Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024

"Turkey brings Al Nusra ["former" regional al-Qaeda] and other jihadists to Northern Iraq to fight against PKK"
https://medyanews.net/turkey-brings-al-nusra-and-other-jihadists-to-northern-iraq-to-fight-against-pkk/

Congratulations, Biden, your encouragement through e.g. the recent sale of 40 new F-16 model jets which is used e.g. for this invasion of Iraq, has let "former" al-Qaeda expand, just because you won't let go of your İncirlik NATO Air Base and was too horny to expand NATO so surrendered to Erdoğan's extortion over allowing the expansion.

That government and its auxiliaries you have thus enabled have many times very clearly declared intending genocides, annexation and further aggression into e.g. Greece and much, much farther.
How many genocides can one person make themself complicit in through just one presidency term?

The many YEARS of the federal govt and parliament of Iraq demanding Turkey leave, while being extorted using cutoff of Iraq's major rivers and through Erdoğan's quisling puppet Barzanis' KDP threatening to cause the fall of the govt if they don't do what KDP and thtough it Erdoğan orders Iraq to do,
has been a loooong process wherein all those States with power to stop Turkey just let the invasion continue, in spite of its several weekly war crimes and its involving the al-Qaeda you once claimed were most important in the world to defeat.

Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024
Turkey's invasion forces bombed the civilian residences in the village Guharze in the Duhok Province of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, about half an hour ago.
Show threadb9AcEJul 6, 2024
Turkey's occupation army driving through the district capital city Amêdî in the Duhok Province of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq tonight, as if Turkey's annexation of S Kurdistan from Iraq has already been declared and accepted.
Show threadb9AcEJul 7, 2024
'Turkish military deployment to South Kurdistan[/Northern Iraq] continues
[...]
Speaking to RojNews, a villager named Şakir said, "Our situation is very bad. I strongly criticise the attitude of political parties and the government. They remain silent against the attacks of the Turkish state. Doesn't the government realise that the Turkish state bombards our villages every day and as a result, most of our fields, gardens and houses are burnt and destroyed? Every day artillery shells and bullets fall on our villages.”'
https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/turkish-military-deployment-to-south-kurdistan-continues-74157
Turkish military deployment to South Kurdistan continues

RojNews, citing local sources, reported that a large military force of the occupying Turkish state crossed into Guherzê village in Amadiya district of Duhok province last night.The same sources r...

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Show threadb9AcEJul 7, 2024

Erdoğan's war of aggression in what's officially Iraq, in addition to the one in Syria, continues advancing methodically setting fire the the general nature and locals' food crops as they go.

Here's a new fire started this evening by the invading occupier at the village Rêkan in Duhok Province of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Locals again reported being prevented by Turkey's occupation army from extinguishing the land of their own homes.

Again, these are absolutely indisputable and systematic war crimes:
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Rule 45. The use of methods or means of warfare that are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment is prohibited. Destruction of the natural environment may not be used as a weapon.
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https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule45

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Rule 43. [...]
A. No part of the natural environment may be attacked, unless it is a military objective.
B. Destruction of any part of the natural environment is prohibited, unless required by imperative military necessity.
[...]
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https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule43

etc, etc

Show threadb9AcEJul 7, 2024
For completeness, adding this toot https://todon.eu/@KCK_Kurdistan_@mastodon.social/112746441992719513 from the @KCK_Kurdistan_ to my thread dedicated to that topic:
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'Call on Everyone to Raise the Intensity of Resistance Against Occupation' - Statement by the KCK Executive Council on the Turkish invasion of southern Kurdistan and the collaboration of the KDP and the Iraqi government.
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KCK-Info (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image New KCK Statement! 'Call on Everyone to Raise the Intensity of Resistance Against Occupation' - Statement by the KCK Executive Council on the Turkish invasion of southern Kurdistan and the collaboration of the KDP and the Iraqi government. Read the full statement here: https://kck-info.com/statements070724/

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Show threadb9AcEJul 8, 2024

Not just their fields of crops, but also tractor needed for future agriculture, was burned by Turkey's army invading to further occupy Iraq's Kurdistan Region, with long declared intent to illegally annex.

Their systematic actions clearly are intentionally targeted against the region's majority Kurdish people as a group and as the same group is similarly targeted in Erdoğan's other war of aggression as well as domestically in the likewise unilaterally restarted civil war, for deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
The last part of the previous sentence is exactly and in full definition "c" of what "genocide means" in the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide".
Yet, USA, et al keeps arming the genocidal aggressor. The leaders of those have thus chosen to make themselves co-culprits.

Show threadb9AcEJul 9, 2024
"Turkey establishes seven new bases deep in Iraqi Kurdish territory"
https://medyanews.net/turkey-establishes-seven-new-bases-deep-in-iraqi-kurdish-territory/
This article states that this "brings the total number of Turkish bases in the region to a reported 71", but previous statements from the defenders said it was then already "over 100" and "about 120" military occupation bases of Turkey in S Kurdistan/N Iraq.
Show threadb9AcEJul 10, 2024
Another night of Erdoğan's imperialist war of aggression forces into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq just casually rolling though the district capital city Amêdî in the Duhok Province with the continuing collaboration of the quisling party KDP which rules the area through brutal repression and corruption:
Show threadb9AcEJul 10, 2024
Some locals seem to have had enough of the invasion forces of Erdoğan just rolling into S Kurdistan/N Iraq unopposed (except by HPG and YJA-Star),
so night to today they reportedly set several of the invasion army's trucks on fire between Amêdî and Şêladîzê in Iraq's Duhok Province. Two invasion soldiers were killed and two wounded.
Show threadHat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻Jul 5, 2024

@b9AcE do you have a source which can give me an overview of what's going on in a larger sense arcoss that part of asia?
Im familiar with Palestine because im an American and the Zionist colony is the longest running most OBVIOUSLY evil thing I know of that America maintains.

Why the fuck did kurds KEEP ON working with the us given how many times we screwed them over?
Nvm. I know why. We weren't trying to exterminate them. I hate that part. So MUCH.

Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024

@CatHat Hmm, I'm sorry, no.
I have me, my memory from following this stuff for well over a decade and for most of that time most of my awake time almost every day.

But good regional news-sources in English are the ones you've seen me keep linking to (in alphabetical order):
https://anfenglish.com
https://hawarnews.com/en
https://medyanews.net
https://npasyria.com/en
https://duvarenglish.com
Definitely a good start. ;-)

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Show threadHat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻Jul 5, 2024

@b9AcE. I guess what im asking about is how kurds in what was kurdistan and Palestinians in Palestine stand in relation to one another? I ran into friction on Twitter between people associated them.
Which largely boiled down to America being DIRECTLY responsible for Palestinian suffering thereafter its my moral obligation to make that stop.

Idk how much energy i have to do a deep dive into 'we screwed them over which means i should try ro unscrew it

Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024

@CatHat I can't speak for either people, but I can tell you that the PKK's first ally was the PFLP.
PKK's first training camp was at PFLP's camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon and the PKK's first ever martyrs fell while defending the Palestinian refugee camps when Israel together with the Fascist (Franco- and Mussolini-inspired) Phalanges, Amal, Lebanese Forces (not the military but political party+militia), etc attacked the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
That alliance between the PKK and the PFLP has remained since then but become fragile lately because PFLP lacking support from abroad, probably for at least having been the best option for the Palestinians, have then instead been forced to get closer to Iran and therefore has expressed support for Assad, which ain't cool with PKK,
but for example when Leyla Güven (then in parliament for HDP) almost hungerstriked to death, the only global politician who came to offer support was Leila Khaled (in parliament for PFLP).

Israel and Turkey like using each others' genocide-targets as PR-props for personal prestige, but those who really know the history and really look to the peoples' mutual good, know that solidarity between the oppressed is immensely valuable, while being used as a tool for another's genocide will only bring betrayal.

Show threadHat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻Jul 5, 2024

@b9AcE good. Its not like they have a choice other than 'die' if they don't work with SOMEONE.

The good guys should not be fighting one another.
Its not something i have the right to pass judgements on of course.
My job is getting MY fucking country to stop supporting genocide

Show threadEllenor Bjornsdottir   Aug 20, 2024
@CatHat @b9AcE Good cop, bad cop. #krokodili
Show threadophiocephalic 🐍Jul 5, 2024
@b9AcE
Fascism is always eco-crime and war is always ecocide
Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024
@ophiocephalic Yes, of course. Every war is a crime against humanity.
The reason that I keep pointing out sometimes when acts are officially labeled as war crimes, is to also implicitly point out the hypocrisy of when States don't act against frequent and blatant war crimes campaigns.
Especially when the intent is to cause starvation amongst the civilian population as a method of warfare
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule53
or to intentionally target the general nature
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule43
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule44
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule45
for example.
The first makes remaining living where they do impossible, displacing or killing the people, which often is intended as a part of genocide and the others usually leaves devastation which will take nature up to decades to recover from, if ever, opening up for desertification, species extinctions and increased climate change rate.
Show threadophiocephalic 🐍Jul 5, 2024
@b9AcE
Hopefully my comment wasn't interpreted as contrarian, more just a reiteration of the obvious. These are good links, thanks for them. Depressing though, as you note, that Erdog regularly violates all of them and more, and the response of the "western" powers is to shower him with more weapons systems. Biden's gift of fighter jets to Turkey is exactly as amoral and cynical as his arming of the Gaza genocide
Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024

@ophiocephalic Oh no, didn't think of it like that at all. I just wanted to share my thoughts on it with you.

The ICRC is the organization responsible for maintaining, promoting, etc the Geneva Conventions and many similar instruments, including holding many expert panels discussing their interpretations into reality and publishing a very good edition with essential commentaries.
So, that IHL database can probably be considered as authoritative as it gets, apart from an ICJ ruling or similar. Highly recommended reference page.

Show threadophiocephalic 🐍Jul 5, 2024
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Bookmarking!
Show threadHat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻Jul 5, 2024

@b9AcE genocide Joe likes genocide.
And fuck i didn't notice this one.

Hoping foe a regional war but i seriously don't get it.
There's nothing to be GAINED afaik.
Why am i trying to figure out how ANY genocidal fascist thinks? Especially one who can't figure out cause and effect.
I hate him

Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024
@CatHat Yeah, it's only been 1½ week since it started, so Reuters, AP, etc haven't found the time to report on something as insignificant as a major invasion of Iraq yet.
Show threadHat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻Jul 5, 2024

@b9AcE i didn't realize the weapons sales.

Was isntreal involved in that? Im unclear on how that works.
And they're too busy dumping money into the red sea and yelling at Lebanon.

Just for the amusement value i appreciate everyone trying to scare yemen.
"Obey us or we'll bomb you '
Like that's news. We're always bombing them over something.

They aren't admitting the Zionist colony has become a pack of kikeny cats
They're refusing to admit 9 months of genocide hasn't damqged 🔻

Show threadb9AcEJul 5, 2024

@CatHat The F-16 sale was explicitly a surrender to Turkey's extortion over Sweden's NATO-accession.

USA had previously said it wouldn't sell more F-16s to Turkey because of the war of aggression against Rojava, aiding ISIL/Daesh, since that could make USA complicit in crimes against humanity or other gross violations, but then for the sake of the NATO-expansion... they sold out the most core of intl law, the protection against war of aggression ("the supreme international crime", as USA's judge famously labeled it at Nuremberg).

Show threadHat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻Jul 5, 2024

@b9AcE obviously that's a load of baloney.
Otherwise putting Isntreal on a leash would have happened fairly quickly once it became clear the Zionist project was opening the endgame on gaza

I thought the USA still had bases in Iraq?