Kurdistan buys helicopters for emergency operations in Sulaymaniyah

“The goal is to buy these aircraft to rescue citizens and facilitate the functions of the Directorate of Civil Defense,” The spokesman of the Civil Defense Directorate in Sulaymaniyah, Rikan Jamal said in a press statement received by "Shafaq News “.

He added that the ministry has agreed to request to buy four helicopters, adding that the ministry is in the process of talking to organizing such agreement for the purchase of aircrafts, adding that buying aircrafts in any country is not easy.

An American company that manufactures surveillance security helicopters, announced last September that KRG asked them for 12 aircrafts that will arrive Kurdistan at the end of this year.

According to the official announcement of this company , these aircrafts will help KRG , especially the Ministry of Interior in the security control of air and control the mountainous areas of the region .