Authorities in northern Iraq report casualties from Turkish drone strike
Al Jazeera
Kurdish authorities say a Turkish drone strike killed several people, with reports that the strike targeted journalists.
Local authorities and news outlets in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region have said that several people were killed in a Turkish drone strike on Friday, including two journalists.
In an initial statement on Friday, the regional authorities said that a car belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was struck near the city of Sulaymaniyah, killing a senior PKK official, his guard and his driver.
However, a later statement by the Kurdistan regional government’s Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani said that the attack targeted a group of journalists, two of whom were killed.
“They were two women journalists, not members of an armed force to be a threat to the security and stability of any country or region,” Talabani said in a statement.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a press advocacy organisation, also released a statement denouncing the deaths of the two journalists, identified as 27-year-old Hero Baha’uddin and 40-year-old Golestan Tara from Sterk TV.
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