Yesterday, the Iraqi presidency called on Turkey to apologize for the Turkish bombing of Sulaymaniyah airport in northern Iraq, stressing that the Turkish government should stop hostilities on Iraqi soil.
Iraqi President Abd al-Latif Rashid condemned the bombing, which was attributed to the Turkish forces, and targeted Sulaymaniyah airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, where fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are holed up, according to the Turkish version. These blatant attacks on Iraq and its sovereignty.
Rashid stressed that there is no legal justification for the Turkish forces to continue their approach of terrorizing safe civilians under the pretext of the presence of opposing forces on Iraqi soil.
For its part, the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq confirmed that the regional government condemns the incident that occurred at Sulaymaniyah airport, calling on the concerned parties to carry out their duties in the investigation and to deal with the incident appropriately instead of assigning blame.
Yesterday, the militia of the “Syrian Democratic Forces – SDF” announced that its commander-in-chief, Mazloum Abdi, had survived the assassination attempt, and said: Abdi and members of the American forces were present at Sulaymaniyah airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, which was targeted the day before yesterday, Friday, in an attack attributed to Turkey.
A spokesman for the “SDF”, Farhad Shami, revealed to “Agence France Presse” some details of the targeting, indicating that Abdi was present in Sulaymaniyah, within the framework of joint work with the Anti-Terrorism Service in Iraqi Kurdistan, with the knowledge of the forces of the so-called “international coalition”, to coordinate efforts. Continuing once morest ISIS, stressing the presence of US forces at the airport during the attack.
He said, “The bombing of the airport took place while Abdi was leaving Sulaymaniyah, following holding a series of meetings with partners once morest ISIS.”
Columns of smoke rose near Sulaymaniyah International Airport the day before yesterday evening, as officials at the airport and the Asayish initially denied that it was caused by shelling or an explosion, while media outlets reported that Mazloum Abdi was in Sulaymaniyah, and two Turkish drones warned the helicopter that You take it without any official sources confirming this information.
A few days ago, a spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tango Bilgic, stated that his country had closed its airspace to flights to and from the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, referring to “the escalation of the activity of the PKK elements there.”