The attack came in a region that Turkey targets because Kurdish militants take refuge there, in a new flaring of regional tensions.
Ankara is upping its rhetoric after the massacre of civilian tourists in northern Iraq; ordering Iraq not to make statements (as if Ankara controls Baghdad)…and then threatening US forces in Syria.
This is the outcome of the Iran-Turkey-Russia talks. Ankara has impunity pic.twitter.com/BQ07pwO4Um
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) July 20, 2022
KRG officials said the bombardment targeted a group of Arab tourists in the region, killing at least eight people and wounding over 20.
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