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?
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.
"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.
@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.