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Iraq: Christians evacuating their villages due to Turkish bombardments

Aug 7, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Move along. No “Islamophobia” was committed. Nothing to see here. At least as far as the international media is concerned.

“Christians evacuating their villages due to Turkish bombardments” by Lawk Ghafuri, Rudaw, August 3, 2019:

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Around 10 Christian villages in the northern Kurdistan Region have been evacuated due to frequent and increasing Turkish bombings targeting apparent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions.

Rudaw visited Christian villages in the Kani Masi District, where some homes are locked up and abandoned. There are 25 such villages in the district, including 10 or so evacuated ones, according to district officials. One local told Rudaw the PKK should leave the area.

“PKK better to go back to Turkey, and fight against the Turkish army inside Turkey, and leave Kurdistan region for peace,” said Shlimon Aseel from the village of Duri, where 15 of the 40 homes have been evacuated.

The PKK is a Kurdish militant group that has fought the Turkish state for decades for greater autonomy for Turkey’s Kurds. Ankara considers the PKK a terrorist group and regularly strikes apparent targets of the group in the Kurdistan Region. The PKK is based in the Qandil mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border.

PKK fighters are present in the areas around the city of Amedi where Kani Masi is. The area is in the Duhok Province amd [sic] close to the Turkish border. Most Christians in the there identify as ethnic Assyrians.

Sarbast Sabri, the head of Kani Masi District, says the Turkish airstrikes hit the district on a daily basis, and negatively impact the lives of civilians.

“Civilians in the area are living in continuous panic, due to the Turkish bombardments and PKK movements in the areas of Kani Masi,” he told Rudaw….

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Filed Under: Featured, Iraq, Muslim persecution of Christians, Turkey Tagged With: Duhok Province, Duri, Kani Masi District


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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    Commies or Christians -no matte who they hit, Turkey wins….

    • The unexpected voice says

      Aug 7, 2019 at 4:59 pm

      Turkey is worse than Commie They’re Islamonazi, the islamic supremacist.

      • Nathan Dunning says

        Aug 7, 2019 at 5:44 pm

        So True and Erdogan wants to rebuild the Ottoman Empire. He will fail of course but he’s trying.

  2. CRUSADER says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    Then there is “The Hunt” —-
    a movie about killing designated people…deemed as “deplorables”!

    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-hunt-movie-deplorables

  3. SAFI says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    The real objective of the turkish operations in northern Syria and Northern Iraq is to de-kurdify and de-christianize those areas and replace the inhabitants with Arab and Turkmen settlers while the Turkish Army sets up permantent bases to stay there indefinitely. Once the demographic engineering achieves it’s purpose Turkey likely plans to directly annex those areas(with some questionable referendum à la Crimea, to gain legitimacy no doubt) in accordance with the larger turkish geopolitical expansionist design known as the “National Oath” (Misak-ı Millî)

    “Turkey commits ethnic cleansing by resettling Arabs, Turkmen in Afrin”
    https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/9a55ec24-e134-4d99-ac68-d15a352b0b74
    “Islamization threatening minorities in Afrin”
    https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/47bfd79b-6559-477e-8ebd-c1a8ef278fde
    “Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin: from forced conversions to demographic change”
    https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/Analysis/bede54d2-ac08-44e2-ba0c-744f793b5d1b

    Kurds are trying to fight back
    “YPG to stop demographic change, will target new settlers in Afrin: Spokesperson”
    https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/e6192e00-276e-4375-9a34-da5d3597397d

    (more on Turkey’s Misak-i Milli mad drive for Ottoman Lebensraum)

    https://francona.blogspot.com/2018/03/what-are-erdogans-intentions-after-fall.html
    https://engineeringevil.com/2016/10/17/turkey-claims-the-iraqi-city-of-mosul-belongs-to-them/
    https://horizonweekly.ca/fr/95060-2/
    http://en.protothema.gr/erdogans-shocking-manifesto-he-openly-vows-to-recapture-territories-from-greece-cyprus-syria/
    https://news.yahoo.com/turkey-maps-reclaiming-ottoman-empire-200053589.html
    https://mirrorspectator.com/2016/10/27/erdogans-ottoman-empire-strikes-back/
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9155/turkey-land-grab

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 7, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    Iraq: Christians evacuating their villages due to Turkish bombardments
    ……………………..

    Turkey is *not* our ally. We should have kicked them out of NATO long since.

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