Iraq: A complaint to the Security Council and summoning the Turkish ambassador in response to the bombing of Kurdistan

The Iraqi National Security Ministerial Council directed, on Wednesday, to prepare a file for the Turkish attacks on its lands to submit a complaint to the Security Council, and to summon the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad to inform him of the conviction.

The Iraqi National Security Ministerial Council brought in the Iraqi Chargé d'Affairs from Ankara for consultations, with a halt to the procedures for sending a new ambassador there, in response to the Turkish bombing of a tourist resort in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, earlier yesterday, which left dead and wounded.

A statement issued by the Iraqi Council after an emergency meeting that included the Prime Minister said that after an extensive discussion of the repercussions of the Turkish criminal incident, several decisions were taken, the most important of which was directing the Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to prepare an integrated file of the repeated Turkish attacks on Iraqi sovereignty and the security of the Iraqi people, with Submit an urgent complaint in this regard to the UN Security Council and the United Nations.

The Iraqi National Security Ministerial Council was not satisfied with that, but directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad, and inform him of the condemnation, while bringing in the Iraqi charge d’affaires from Ankara, in order to consult and stop the procedures for sending a new ambassador to Turkey, calling on Turkey to submit an official apology and withdraw its forces military from all Iraqi lands.

In its condemnation, which was reported by the Iraqi News Agency, INA, the Iraqi government confirmed that it would take the highest levels of diplomatic response.

And "conscious" quoted a statement from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, in which the latter stressed that "these positions represent a flagrant violation of Iraq's sovereignty, and a clear threat to the safe civilians, a number of whom were martyred and others were injured as a result of this act."

And the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced, earlier yesterday, that 8 people were killed and 23 others were injured as a result of violent artillery shelling on a resort in the city of Dohuk.

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