A drone attack on a car in Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region killed three people on Wednesday, a local official told Agence France-Presse.
Turkey has maintained dozens of military bases in northern Iraq for the past quarter of a century as part of its campaign against militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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The leftist group has waged an on-off insurgency against Turkey since 1984 and is designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies.
“This afternoon a drone bombed a car on the Dokan-Khalakan road, killing three people,” Dokan District Governor Sirwan Sarhad told AFP.
“There were three people in the car,” he added, saying that two had been identified as a father and son who lived in the Ranya area of Kurdistan.
The federal government in Baghdad discreetly outlawed the PKK as a “banned organization” in March and last month agreed to a military cooperation deal with Ankara that will see joint training and command centers set up in the fight against the militants.
On August 23 a drone strike that officials in the Kurdish region blamed on Turkey killed two female journalists working for PKK-funded outlets.
And on Tuesday the Turkish defense ministry said its forces had launched airstrikes on the PKK in the mountains of northern Iraq, claiming to have killed “numerous” militants.