In the aftermath of the Turkish shelling that killed at least nine civilians in Zakho, Iraq, widespread protests call for an end to Turkey’s attacks, the Iraqi Shia Opposition Leader says Iraq should close its international borders with Turkey, and file a complaint to the UN.
Both the The Peoples’ Democratic Party and Turkey’s Diyarbakır Bar Association compared Turkey’s killing of civilians in Iraq’s Dohuk district to the 2011 Roboski killings in the Kurdish majority city of Şırnak.
One of Turkey’s leading human rights defenders, Eren Keskin, co-chair of the country’s Human Rights Association has given a detailed account of Turkey’s human rights record, as she described the hardships faced by her organisation.
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