YAZIDI and Kurdish groups have called on the Iraqi government, the United Nations and other international organisations to break their silence over Turkey’s attacks on the Sengal refugee camp in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region.

Some 20 organisations have signed yesterday’s declaration calling for urgent action in the light of Ankara’s escalation of hostilities in the region via Operation Claw Eagle,  a mission it claims is targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Sengal was one of the camps bombed by Turkish war planes last week, with missiles striking 81 targets. There were reports that chemical weapons were used on the UN-administered camp in Maxmur.