Three Kurdistan Workers’ Party members were killed in Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday, authorities said, as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was visiting the regional capital Erbil after he began on Tuesday his first official trip to Iraq.
Three members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed on Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, authorities said, as Ankara’s top diplomat visited the northern region.
“A Turkish army drone struck a PKK vehicle, killing an official and two fighters” of the group – considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey and Western countries – in the Sidakan district, the Kurdish counter-terrorism services said.
It came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was visiting the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Erbil after he began on Tuesday his first official trip to Iraq.
Fidan met with the Kurdistan region’s president Nechirvan Barzani and prime minister Masrour Barzani, amid calls by Ankara for Baghdad to label the PKK a terrorist organisation.
Source : The New Arab