Yesterday, Monday, a statement issued by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said that a Turkish helicopter had been shot down in northern Iraq. The media center of the so-called Kurdistan People’s Defense Forces issued a statement confirming that its forces had carried out a military operation, which targeted a Skorsky helicopter in Jarjla Square in the Zagros area. And managed to achieve a direct hit and shoot down one of the Turkish helicopters.
The statement added that 10 minutes after the first helicopter was shot down, Kurdish forces managed to achieve direct hits in a second helicopter and forced it to flee. Turkey is bombing the Iraqi border lands repeatedly, the last of which was last Tuesday, when a drone targeted a meeting that included Iraqi army leaders and PKK leaders in the Erbil governorate, northern Iraq, which resulted in a number of deaths and injuries.
The Iraqi army announced that Turkey carried out a blatant attack by a drone targeting a military wheel of border guards in the Sidakan area, which led to the killing of the commander of the second brigade, border guards of the first region, the commander of the third regiment, the second brigade, and the driver of the wheel.
On the other hand, the Iraqi army announced, in a statement, the arrest of one of the “most dangerous terrorists” involved in the “Spyker” massacre, which took place in Salah al-Din Governorate. “One of the criminals who participated in the massacre carried out by the terrorist organization” ISIS “, in which hundreds of Iraqi youths were killed, has been confirmed by the spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasul. He added, “According to the directives of the Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the elements of the Counter-Terrorism Service continue their qualitative operations to pursue the defeated elements in various regions.”
It is noteworthy that the massacre carried out by ISIS on June 12, 2014 killed nearly two thousand students at the Air Force College at the “Spyker” military base in Tikrit.
The terrorist organization executed hundreds of defenseless Iraqi youths and tortured the corpses of some of them, and photographed and published them with the aim of spreading terror among Iraqis.
