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Turkey Airstrikes Target Iraqi Christian Villages; Activists Call for War Crimes Investigation
The Turkish military launched airstrikes targeting Iraqi Christian villages in northern Iraq, a rights group warned.
- Samuel Smith
- The Christian Post
Local sources have told International Christian Concern, a U.S.-based persecution watchdog, that seven predominantly Christian villages were targeted by Turkish airstrikes last month.
September saw an increase in Turkish airstrikes in the north of Iraq.
“Turkey attempts to justify these airstrikes by claiming that these villages support or have a PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) presence,” an ICC report reads.
“Turkey is occupying a…