The repercussions of the attack on the Iraqi resort..The Security Council enters the line and Erdogan renews his denial of his country's responsibility

Today, Tuesday, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the attack on an Iraqi resort last week, while Turkey again denied being behind the attack, and blamed the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The Security Council meeting comes in response to a request from Iraq to discuss the Turkish attack on Iraqi territory, which killed 9 civilians and wounded 23.

And the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, had directed the preparation of a comprehensive file of what he described as the continuous Turkish violations of Iraqi lands and submitting it to the Security Council, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called, last Friday, for an urgent investigation into the artillery shelling on Dohuk.

Security Council members condemned yesterday, Monday, the attack on the Iraqi resort (Reuters)

Yesterday, Monday, the members of the UN Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack that took place in Zakho district in Dohuk governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Council affirmed - in a statement - that it supports the Iraqi authorities in the investigations into the attack, and urges all member states to cooperate with the Iraqi government to support the investigations.

The members of the Council reiterated their support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq, and the democratic process and prosperity in Iraq.

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the UN statement, and its spokesman, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that the statement is "the first of its kind in the context of a series of Turkish violations of Iraq's sovereignty and security," adding that "the content of the statement supports Iraq's position and sets procedures for considering the attack on Iraq." National sovereignty in a new context.

Erdogan: The bombing was carried out by "terrorists" and aims to harm Turkish-Iraqi relations (Anatolia)

Turkish denial

Turkey denies involvement in the bombing and accused the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of causing it, while the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said that "all indications confirm Ankara's responsibility for the attack."

The PKK denied the Turkish accusations, and said its forces were not "present in the area where the bombing took place."

In this context, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday evening, Monday, that the bombing that took place in an Iraqi tourist resort last week was carried out by "terrorists", and aims to harm Turkish-Iraqi relations.

Erdogan confirmed - in an interview broadcast by the Turkish Radio and Television Channel - that his country informed its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), including the United States, and the Iraqi authorities of its position on the attack, and that he called on Iraq not to fall into the "trap" of propaganda by PKK militants. .

He added, "In the same way, we said this to our Iraqi friends and brothers, and we called on them to take our statements into consideration. It is impossible for Turkey to do such a thing against its friends and brothers, and the attack is one of the usual actions of the terrorist organization." There are some of the wise among our Iraqi brothers and friends who made positive statements, but some made opposite statements, and one of them requested that Iraq not participate in the Islamic (solidarity) games to be held in Konya, Turkey.

The Turkish president stressed the need for Iraq not to take such a step, stressing that Turkey would like to see Iraq participating in these games.

And the Iraqi Olympic Committee decided - earlier - to withdraw from the Fifth Islamic Solidarity Games, which will start on the ninth of next August in the Turkish city of Konya, in protest against the bombing of the Iraqi resort.

The bombing aroused the anger of Iraqi public opinion, especially that the majority of the victims are from the center and south of the country, who head to the mountainous regions of Kurdistan bordering Turkey, to escape the heat.

Last Saturday, the Iraqi parliament decided to form a joint fact-finding committee on the ground.

A high-level military delegation headed by the Deputy Commander of Joint Operations, Lieutenant-General Abdul-Amir Al-Shammari, arrives at the Turkish border to assess the situation there pic.twitter.com/C9uyOMxVsJ

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border control

In light of these developments, Lieutenant-General Abdul-Amir Al-Shammari - Deputy Chief of Joint Operations Commander in Iraq - called today, Tuesday, for "quick" and joint action with the Kurdistan region and to enter into direct negotiations with the Turkish side in order to control the situation on the borders.

On Tuesday morning, a high-ranking military delegation headed by Al-Shammari, accompanied by the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Commander of the Border Guard Forces, arrived at the headquarters of the 1st Border Guard Brigade in the Batufa area of ​​Zakho city in the Kurdistan Region to assess the security situation on the Iraqi-Turkish border.

Al-Shammari said, "Our visit to the Iraqi-Turkish border came in implementation of the National Security Council's decision last Wednesday to assign the Joint Operations Command to assess the security situation on the borders."

He added, "We are currently visiting the border points of the First Region Border Guard Command, and we have noticed the size of the Turkish incursion into Iraqi territory and the openness of its points."