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KRG puts PKK on notice for killing of peshmerga forces

The Biden administration slams PKK attack on Iraqi Kurdish allies as 'brutal.'

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters arrive in the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk on May 14, 2013.
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters arrive in the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk on May 14, 2013. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images

In response to the killing of its members at the hands of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said in a statement it is always the people who pay the price.

The KRG accused the PKK of causing multiple losses to the region due to such operations.

The ministry stressed it will allow neither Kurdistan nor its people to fall prey to the PKK’s erroneous policy.

The Biden administration condemned the PKK attack on the peshmerga forces and described it as “brutal” at a time when the Iraqi government vowed a just punishment is in store for whoever sheds Iraqi blood.

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