The Turkish government is yet again attacking Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous area in northern Iraq.
On Sunday, the head of the Sadrist bloc, Hassan al-Adari, demanded clarification of the fact that there is an agreement regarding Turkish attacks in Iraq.
Al-Athari said in a speech during the hosting of Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein and the advanced cadre of the ministry, and attended by the reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the minister's hosting came in order to inquire about the repeated attacks on Iraq's lands and skies by neighboring countries, which endangers the security of Iraq and its people."
He added, "There are inquiries about the measures taken by the Iraqi government towards the Turkish and Iranian violations, and whether an official case has been filed before the Security Council, and is there a diplomatic move before the Arab League to clarify these violations, and how true is there an agreement with the Turkish side and the Iraqi government on the military presence inside Iraq.”
That's not a surprise. As noted in "The words flowing from Nouri al-Maliki's mouth" (THE COMMON ILLS) Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki was part of a growing number of Iraqi politicians now speaking out regarding Turkey's latest wave of attacks:
Nouri calling out the attacks is a popular move. Though the western
press tries to present this as normal and not treat them as the very
serious acts of war and violations of national sovereignty that they
are, Iraqis are not applauding Turkey yet again invading their country.
That's before you factor in the growing ill will towards Turkey over
that country's dam building and how it has impacted water resources in
Iraq (Iran is also building dams, we're not talking about Iran, so
anyone who feels they have a point to pull out of their ass, shove it
back up there for another time) and, for some outside the KRG, Turkey's
extra-legal access to oil, let's it put it that way (the underground -
above ground supply they have via the KRG).
As noted by both, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the sitting prime minister (at least for now) has remained silent.
His silence is nonsense.
Words? They can be nonsense as well -- like these words from the Turkish newspaper THE DAILY SABAH:
Since its foundation in 1984, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union – has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people in Turkey, including women, children and infants.
Similar statements pop up all over -- even in non-Turkish media outlets. You do get the problem with that, don't you? These Turkish operations targeting the PKK (or allegedly targeting the PKK)? They keep killing Iraqi civilians. They've been doing that for years -- double digit years. And no press outlet's counting that number.
That's not journalism, don't pretend that it is.