Iraqi resistance fighters to respond to latest Turkish airstrike on Makhmour: PMU leader

Qais al-Khazali, in a tweet published on his Twitter page on Wednesday, condemned Turkey’s repeated violations of Iraqi sovereignty, warning that the Ankara government “is going too far with targeting civilians.”

“Amid the government’s deplorable silence, flagrant violation of the Iraqi sovereignty continues by Turkish occupation forces, after they established military bases in northern Iraq. The situation has exacerbated and ordinary citizens are now being targeted under flimsy claims and pretexts,” Qazali wrote.

He underlined that Iraqi resistance fighters will teach Turkish forces a tough lesson.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the aggression against our people, the bombardment of a refugee camp and increasing the suffering of [internally] displaced persons. We affirm that the barbaric Turkish moves will not go unanswered, and will be dealt with when the time is ripe. We will force them to withdraw from the Iraqi soil, as we did with respect to American occupation troops,” Khazali pointed out.

Iraq’s Security Media Cell, in a statement, called for a halt to Turkish attacks on Iraqi territories, saying, “Iraq is fully prepared for bilateral cooperation and to control the security situation on common borders” with Turkey.