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Missiles targeting Turkey’s Zilikan base land near Peshmerga forces

PM:04:44:26/06/2022

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SULAIMANI — Two missiles hit near a Peshmerga base in Bashiqa Mountain in Shekhan district of Nineveh province on Sunday (June 26).

The Head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) media center in Mosul told NRT that the missiles targeted Zilkan’s Turkish military base but hit near the 112th Brigade of Peshmerga forces base.

He also said that no one was hurt in the incident.

Turkey has about 40 military bases or posts in the Kurdistan Region and since 2015, it has established its military base in Bashiqa district under the pretext of the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the area.

(NRT Digital Media)