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Turkey shells an Iraqi Kurdistan region
area: official
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February 10, 2007
Zakho, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Turkish
forces on Friday shelled with artillery an Iraqi
area on the borderline with Turkey, a Kurdish
official said.
"Six artillery shells that were fired from (Karri
Rash) area in the Turkish territories fell near
village (Barrakh) in the north of Zakho," Lieutenant
Colonel Fahmi Sofi , deputy commander of Peshmerga
1st Division in Zakho, said.
Dozens Iraqi Kurdish villages within Iraq's
Kurdistan Duhuk are located near the country's
northern borders with Turkey with most of their
residents work as shepherds.
Barrakh residents said the shelling resulted in no
damage.
Ramadhan Faysal, a Barrakh resident, said "Turkish
forces fired today at 3:00 pm six artillery shells
onto (Galli Bahnona) area near village Barrakh but
the shelling resulted in no damage."
Village Barrakh is 30 km north of Zakho, capital
city of Duhuk province.
Last week, Turkish forces shelled areas near
villages (Kistah) and (Nazdor) with no casualties
reported.
Turkish authorities say their forces are chasing
elements of the banned Turkish Kurdish workers'
party (PKK) inside the Iraqi territories.
VOI
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