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A MILITARY adviser to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Babakir Zebari, has warned the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that it has to “act smart” if it wants to avoid a fight with peshmerga forces in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).
Mr Zebari was speaking on the region’s NRT TV when he sought to blame the Kurdish guerilla fighters for Turkey’s military invasion of the mountainous Duhok province, which started on April 23.
He said that Turkey has “soldiers, rockets and aeroplanes” in the Kurdistan region, but would not withdraw as long as the PKK maintains a presence there.
The KDP has long agitated for a war against the PKK, despite frantic efforts by all other parties — including the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Communist Party-Iraq — to avoid deadly intra-Kurdish clashes.
Since it launched its illegal military invasion, Turkey has been accused of using chemical weapons on three separate occasions — a crime under international law.
Hundreds of Kurdish villagers have been forced to flee their homes due to the intensity of Turkey’s bombing, amid accusations that Ankara is populating the region with Islamists and their families as part of a demographic change.
