PKK threatens journalists, lawmakers in Kurdistan as regional tensions rise
The media and a member of the Kurdistan Region parliament have spoken out against threats and pressure from the PKK, as tensions and drone attacks increase.
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan — As drones and rockets target both Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters and Turkish military deployed to Iraq, an attack by PKK supporters on a local media outlet and continued child recruitment by the group have raised concern in the Kurdistan Region.
Multiple PKK attacks on peshmerga fighters and others have been reported in recent weeks.
On June 5, the PKK reportedly kidnapped a peshmerga fighter from his home in Sinjar in Iraq’s Ninevah province and attacked a peshmerga position in Dahuk province in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The PKK had, on the same day the previous year, killed five peshmerga fighters in an ambush and a commemoration ceremony was held in Dahuk for the soldiers killed.
Pressure from the PKK is also being exerted through threats against media workers, members of parliament and others.
