Iraqi Kurdistan's President Urges PKK to Leave City of Sinjar

Iraqi Kurdistan Region's President Masoud Barzani recalled on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday to leave the Yazidi city of Sinjar located in northern Iraq.


On Thursday, authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan Region thanked PKK, which is considered as a terrorist organization by Turkey, for their assistance in Iraqi Kurdistan and urged it to leave the region.

"There shouldn’t be other forces preventing the reconstruction, the activities of government institutions, and the movements of the Peshmerga forces while the [Kurdistan] Region’s official institutions and the Peshmerga forces are in Shingal [Sinjar] region… The Yazidis are indigenous Kurds, their religion and worship is in Kurdish. No person or party is entitled to impose other definitions on the Yazidis," Barzani said at the meeting with Yazidi leader Mir Tahsen Beg, as quoted by the Rudaw news agency.

Barzani pointed out that he would seek reconstruction of the Sinjar region the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Baghdad and the international community.
   (Sputnik)
18/3/17