The Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad and delivered a memorandum of protest against the background of the Turkish air strikes in the north of the country, after the Turkish planes renewed their raids on the "Kani Masi" area in the northern Dohuk governorate in the Iraqi Kurdistan region on the Iraqi-Turkish borders, targeting the sites of the PKK militants.
The ministry said in a statement that it had condemned a "violation of its sovereignty" during a Turkish air operation against PKK bases.
Ankara and its Western allies consider the PKK, which has been waging a revolt against the Turkish state since 1984, as a "terrorist organization."
The PKK bases are not authorized, but the Kurdish independent administration in northern Iraq tolerates its presence implicitly. A government source in the region said that the planes targeted a number of villages in the Amadiyah district.
Locations and targeting
Meanwhile, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that the bombing operation has so far targeted more than 80 sites of the PKK.
The Turkish army, which continues its operations against the PKK in southeastern Turkey and its bases across the border, launched raids on Sunday evening, Sunday, on Mount Qandil, Sinjar and Hakurk in northern Iraq.
In its response to these attacks, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that although the air strikes did not result in any injuries, it "terrified the population."
As for the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, it considered that the Turkish bombing that targeted sites belonging to the PKK in Nineveh Governorate, that it is not consistent with the obligations of good neighborliness in accordance with international agreements, and represents a flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
In a statement, the Iraqi leadership called on Turkey not to repeat these attacks, and to stop what it described as violations in respect and commitment to the common interests between the two countries.
The statement indicated that Iraq is ready to cooperate and control security conditions on the common borders with Turkey.
For its part, the PKK announced in a statement that it had not been affected by the Turkish attacks on its sites in northern Iraq.
Joint bombing
This comes, while eyewitnesses said in the Haji Omran region of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, that the Iranian artillery shelled a number of villages this morning, near the Iraqi-Iranian border, this morning.
The witnesses added that Turkish planes also came from the Iraqi-Turkish border and directed their missiles towards the region, in what looked like a joint operation between the two countries to strike sites of the Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party, whose fighters are active along the border.
The operation comes a week after an IED attack on a bus carrying workers at a road maintenance company in the state of "Van" in southeastern Turkey, killing two of them and wounding 8 others.
Recently, Turkish forces carried out security operations in areas in the southeast of the country, killing and wounding PKK militants, while the authorities announced the arrest of another gunman who had infiltrated from northern Syria to carry out a truck bomb attack. It is reported that Turkey, the United States and the European Union classify the PKK as a terrorist organization.