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Turkish airstrikes target Christian villages in Iraq

Oct 5, 2018 7:56 am By Robert Spencer

Turkey is a rogue state that is in no sense an ally of the United States. Turkey should be expelled from NATO, which is configured according to outdated Cold War realities. It needs to be reconfigured in light of the realities of the global jihad.

“Turkey Airstrikes Target Iraqi Christian Villages; Activists Call for War Crimes Investigation,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, October 2, 2018:

The Turkish military launched airstrikes targeting Iraqi Christian villages in northern Iraq, a rights group warned.

Local sources have told International Christian Concern, a U.S.-based persecution watchdog, that seven predominantly Christian villages were targeted by Turkish airstrikes last month. September saw an increase in Turkish airstrikes in the north of Iraq.

“Turkey attempts to justify these airstrikes by claiming that these villages support or have a PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) presence,” an ICC report reads. “Turkey is occupying a significant swath of land in northern Iraq and is deepening its presence daily.”

According to ICC, Christian villages in Iraq have historically faced challenges spurred by the PKK and the Kurdish Regional Government. However, the situation for the Christians in largely agricultural northern Iraq has “worsened while the NATO member continues to gain more territorial control in Iraq’s north.”

“Human rights groups have repeatedly warned that Turkey is using the PKK’s general presence as an excuse to expand its territory and that by conducting airstrikes where there is no specific legitimate military target, Turkey is in violation of international law,” ICC asserted in its report.

In September, Human Rights Watch suggested that there were at least four Turkish military operations in northern Iraq that claimed to have targetted the PKK (recognized by the United States as a terrorist group) dating back to May 2017 that should be investigated for possible war crimes.

The PKK has been active in Iraq, with its presence near the border of Turkey, Iran and Syria. The Turkish government has actively launched operations against the PKK for over 10 years.

Turkey’s airstrikes in northern Iraq have killed at least seven non-combatants and wounded at least one more, witnesses and relatives told the human rights group.

“As Turkey steps up operations in Iraq, it should be taking all feasible precautions to avoid harming civilians there,” Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “Turkey should investigate possible unlawful strikes that killed civilians, punish those responsible for wrongdoing, and compensate victims’ families.”

Over the weekend, the Turkish military claimed to have “neutralized” at least 18 PKK militants through airstrikes that targeted various regions of northern Iraq.

HWR noted that Turkish forces have extended their presence in northern Iraq by about 10 miles and has multiple outposts in rural governorates under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Concern was raised earlier this year that Turkey-backed violence targeting the Afrin region of Syria was putting the lives of Christians and other civilians in “mortal danger.”

“As the leaders of the Christian churches in North Syria, in the town of Afrin we hereby confirm that we are under attack by Turkey,” an open letter from a pastor (name omitted for security purposes) in the region to international leaders read. “The lives of our women and children are in danger. The city of Afrin is being bombarded by Turkish airstrikes. We are asking for intervention, and protection against the violent attacks which are being levied against use at the moment.”…

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  1. Mac-101 says

    Oct 5, 2018 at 8:49 am

    Are these the first strikes by NATO to eradicate Christianity for the EU and establish Islam as the world’s religion and Germany the head of the Caliphate as Hitler desired in his dreams?

    • elee says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 10:57 am

      Erdogan’s party says he’ll be caliph by 2023. He proposes to realize the dream that eluded Hitler.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 12:11 pm

      Yep. All part of the globalist plan, Mac.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 6:26 pm

      Turkey has been–foolishly–allowed to become a member of NATO. But this does not mean that it is NATO bombing Christian villages.

      • Mac-101 says

        Oct 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm

        Perhaps a first step!

  2. brane pilot says

    Oct 5, 2018 at 9:14 am

    In the 1990s, Bill Clinton ordered the NATO bombing of civilians in Christian cities in former Yugoslavia for their crime of resisting violent Islamic takeover of their country. So what is the big deal?
    This is business as usual.
    I’m surprised they haven’t started bombing Myanmar by now. Too far away I guess.

    • Mac-101 says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 10:04 am

      Satan loves killin G-ds people. Whether Orthodox Jews or Christians!

    • Indiana Tom says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 5:22 pm

      I have heard we blew up the Christian Serbs as a favor for the Saudis. Not that the Serbs were being humanitarian, but then again most ethnic groups in the Balkans are sort of that way. Now Bosnia is used as a Muslim springboard to immigrate to Northern Europe. USA really did not have a dog in the Balkans conflict.

      • Mac-101 says

        Oct 5, 2018 at 6:46 pm

        Yup, wonder what the Clinton’s got for dat? Step 1 in the overthrow of Europe.
        .
        Bill basically started the Cold War up again over that. The Russians wanted to our friends between the collapse of Communism and up to this Point!

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Oct 6, 2018 at 12:03 am

          It is worth noting at this point that Bill Clinton is a past winner of the coveted globalist gong, the Charlemagne (Kalergi) prize.

        • Mac-101 says

          Oct 6, 2018 at 12:25 am

          Stella, Yup!

  3. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Oct 5, 2018 at 10:55 am

    Ottoman Sultan Erdogan has made no secret about Islam or his agenda. The so called “West”: however chooses to look the other way. As it does with Sunni Islam in general.and refuses to read Quran, Hadiths, and Isamic History to understand what Erdogan says. “There is no exterme Islam or radical Islam. Islam is Islam”

  4. William McKenzie says

    Oct 5, 2018 at 11:28 am

    Ezekiel 38 & 39 describe a confederacy between Iran, Turkey and Russia that will join the other nations who will attempt to destroy the resurrected nation of Israel, The birth, death and resurrection of the nation of Israel is an allegory of Christ.

    • Elisha says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 8:22 pm

      Correct. I think Walid Shoebat nails it:

      https://www.amazon.com/Gods-War-Terror-Islam-Prophecy-ebook/dp/B00C0UQGLU

      This will be fun:

      “The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” – Zechariah 12:7-9

      The following verse is one of my favorite verses. We have our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ speaking about the Holy Spirit opening the eyes of the Jews, then our Heavenly Father speaks – right next to Him! :

      And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.” – Zechariah 12:10

      Ultimately, it’s Luke 13:1-5.

      God bless.

  5. Indiana Tom says

    Oct 5, 2018 at 5:25 pm

    Eh, the Turks are sort of out of practice in commiting Christian genocide as it has been awhile since killing Armenians. The Turkish military launched airstrikes targeting Iraqi Christian villages in northern Iraq, Just have to get back in the groove!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 6:28 pm

      Grimly true, Indiana Tom.

  6. gravenimage says

    Oct 5, 2018 at 5:42 pm

    Turkish airstrikes target Christian villages in Iraq
    ………………

    This is appalling! Turkey is no ally of ours, and should be kicked out of NATO now.

  7. infidel says

    Oct 6, 2018 at 5:33 am

    This beast called Erdogan just gets on my nerve.. a very disgusting hate filled creature..

  8. JOHN says

    Oct 7, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    Time to expel Turkey from NATO and / or shoot down their planes when entering Iraqi airspace. Period.

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