Iraq's Kurdistan laments caught in middle of Turkey-PKK fight


  • World
  • Saturday, 01 Aug 2015

The flag-draped coffin of slain soldier Hamza Yildirim is carried by honour guards during a funeral ceremony at Kocatepe mosque in Ankara, Turkey, July 31, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdistan region is suffering the fallout as Turkey launches strikes against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq, the region's top diplomat said on Friday, calling for both sides to return to a ceasefire.

"We are caught in between (the) two sides," Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government's department of foreign relations, told a small group of reporters in Washington.

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