Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region is one of the most dangerous places for media workers, says Reporters Without Borders.
Thick smoke billows from a raging fire at a storage tank of the al-Awda oil field facility near al-Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria close to the Turkish border on December 24, 2023, a day after a reported Turkish strike.Journalist Rêbîn Bekir was driving near the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq on the morning of August 23, when a rocket slammed into his car.
The Kurdish people have a homeland that stretches through regions of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, but no state of their own. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, the Kurds of northern Iraq have enjoyed an extensive and constitutionally protected autonomous status within the borders of the Republic of Iraq. In Syria, the Kurdish population has also been able to achieve an unrecognized de facto autonomous status in the course of the Syrian civil war.
Civilians living in the region have been particularly hard hit by the ongoing operations. According to the U.S. nongovernmental organization Community Peacemaker Teams , at least 6,500 hectares of forest and farmland have been set ablaze by bombing and artillery fire since the latest attacks began. CPT and its teams in the affected areas have been reporting on the impact of Turkish operations on civilians for several years, collecting information and evidence of possible war crimes.
The anti-terror unit of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , which governs the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, referred to the women killed as “PKK fighters” in a statement. The KDP has close political and economic ties with the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and cooperates with the Turkish army in the fight against PKK guerrilla units. Turkey is by far the largest buyer of crude oil from the autonomous region.
Dilyar Cizîrî, head of the Free Press Association, an organization representing the interests of media professionals in northern and eastern Syria, told thenews agency that 27 members of the free press had been killed in Turkish attacks since the Turkish airstrikes began.
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