Local women near Sinjar, Iraq. File photoMOSCOW, Jul 22The Zlikan Turkish military base in northern Iraq's Ninewa province came under rocket attack, Al-Sumaria reported, citing an Iraqi security source. The source said the Three rockets were fired towards the military base. The Iraqi authorities on Wednesday decided to recall Baghdad's Charge d'Affaires in Turkey after the shelling of the resort town of Zakho in the north of the country by Turkish forces. According to the Kurdistan Democratic Party, as a result of the fall of artillery shells, nine people were killed and another 33 were injured. The Foreign Ministry was instructed to file a complaint with the UN Security Council, as well as to call the Turkish ambassador and tell him about the condemnation of the strike. The central authorities in Baghdad intend to coordinate with Erbil to prevent a repetition of Turkish aggression. In turn, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey did not carry out any attacks on Iraqi positions. The armed conflict with the PKK began in Turkey in 1984 and resumed in 2015. In northern Iraq, there are PKK bases against which the Turkish Armed Forces conduct air and ground operations. The presence of the Turkish military in the Zlikan camp northeast of Mosul has long been a source of controversy between Baghdad and Ankara, which justifies the presence as a need to fight the banned PKK in Turkey.
