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.
"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/
"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
"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?
@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
@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 🔻
@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).
@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?