Iraqi resistance group urges parliament to response to the recent attack
A top Iraqi anti-terror group has called on the parliament to take practical measures in response to Turkey's strikes against a tourist resort in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
The Turkish attack carried out on Wednesday killed at least nine people, including children, and wounded more than 20 others.
In a statement on Friday, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq resistance group said repeated acts of aggression and continuous violation of the Iraqi sovereignty, occupation of the country’s territories and establishment of military bases, and shedding the blood of Iraqi civilians are far away from the principle of good neighborliness and international conventions.
The group called for a unified stance from the government, the parliament and political factions in the country.
The resistance group emphasized that the Baghdad government should not stop at lodging a complaint at the United Nations, and should call for an emergency session of the UN Security Council in order to make Turkish soldiers leave the Iraqi soil, and demand indemnities for Ankara’s repeated violations and subsequent civilian casualties.
Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq called for political and economic decisions that will require Turkey to respect the sovereignty of Iraq and the Arab’s country's right to the inflow of water.
Meanwhile, Qais al-Khazali, the leader of the Iraqi Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq resistance group, said, “Ankara will have to pay heavy price for shedding the blood of innocent Iraqi people if Turkish forces do not issue an official apology and shoulder responsibility for the attack."
“We will avenge the bloodshed and impose sanctions against Turkey, which is trying to occupy northern Iraq. Iraqis have the power to defend their country. [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan should give up the dream of occupying Mosul,” he told the Arabic-language al-Jazeera television news network.
Khazali expressed hope that “the Iraqi parliament will pass a resolution on the need for the immediate withdrawal of Turkish forces from the country.”
Iraqi resistance groups are ready to implement the decisions of the nation and the parliament.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq chief warned about the Israeli regime’s attempt to expand its influence across Iraq.
“Israeli operatives are now present in the capital Baghdad, as well as areas in Basra, Nineveh and Anbar province under different titles. Their activities are not limited to Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region,” he said.
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