The Iraqi army is looking for a Turkish air strikes "spy"

Shafaq News / The official spokesperson of the joint operations, Major General Tahsin Al-Khafaji, revealed the formation of committees to investigate in the Turkish Airstrike that caused the killing of two officers and a soldier from the border guards.

Al-Khafaji announced that there is coordination with Kurdistan to discuss the situation related to the bombing by a Turkish drone in the Sidekan district, ​​Erbil.

In a press statement to a Russian website, Al-Khafaji said that c”ontacts are underway to reveal the mechanism that the Turks adopted in their bombing, and who gave the information and how this plane was directed and bombed the military vehicle carrying the commander of the second brigade, and the commander of the third regiment / second brigade, which resulted in They were killed, along with their driver.”

He emphasized the formation of committees to find out the causes of this attack that targeted two Iraqi officers who were on an inspection mission on the border guards between Iraq and Turkey.

The spokesman for the Iraqi Joint Operations Command considered, the Turkish aggression, “a dangerous development.”

The Security Media Cell said, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, in a statement, that "Turkey's blatant attack targeted a military vehicle of border guards in the Sidekan area and caused the martyrdom of 2 commanders and an official."

For its part, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced, on Tuesday, the cancellation of the Turkish Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar’s visit of, and summoning the ambassador of Ankara to hand him a strongly-worded protest note.

The Arab Parliament called for immediate action to stop "Turkey's blatant aggression" against Iraq, and the Arab League announced its support for any move by the Iraqi government "towards these attacks."

The President of the Arab Parliament called on the UN Security Council to take urgent action to stop the repeated Turkish attacks on the sovereignty of Iraq in order to preserve security and peace in the region.

For years, Turkish aircraft and artillery have been heavily bombing border areas in Kurdistan saying that the bombardment targets PKK fighters.

On June 17, Turkey launched the "Claw-Tiger” operation against PKK in Kurdistan, resulting in much causality.