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Twenty-one-year-old Miran Mohamad became the latest protester to be killed when he was shot dead by KDP forces
TURKISH troops have been welcomed into areas of northern Iraq controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), it was alleged today, as the deeping political crisis there brought calls for the government to resign.
Video footage circulating on social media apparently showed scores of Turkish soldiers eating alongside KDP supporters, with suggestions that they are to be deployed to quell an anti-government uprising.
Ankara is known to have forces in the region. The Morning Star reported last week that thousands of Turkish soldiers have joined KDP forces in the Qandil mountains region ahead of a threatened offensive against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
