Dozens of demonstrators gathered in Iraq’s Kurdish region yesterday to protest a drone strike that killed two female journalists, an attack attributed to Turkiye by local officials. The victims, Gulistan Tara, 40, a Kurdish journalist from Turkiye, and Hero Bahadin, 27, an Iraqi-Kurdish video editor, worked for CHATR, a Kurdish media production house linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is a designated terrorist organisation by Turkiye, the US and the EU. The strike, which occurred on Friday, also resulted in another injury. Although an Iraqi security source and the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) counter-terrorism service in Erbil blamed Turkiye, Ankara denied involvement. Protesters in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq’s second-largest city, chanted, “The martyrs will not die,” while holding posters of […]
