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Kurdistan denies the occurrence of clash
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Sheikh Jaafar Mustafa (R), The Minister of Peshmerga
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December 19, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlęr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— A
military source denied any move or fall of aircrafts
in the disputed area between the Kurdish Peshmerga
forces and the Iraqi army, after some of media
circulated news of a plane crash in Tuz Khormatu
district.
The site of the internal ministry of Kurdistan said
in a statement that the disputed area between
Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army did not witness
any military clashes between the two sides, the
region has not witness the flight or fall of any
kind of aircrafts over the past two days.
It is referred that some sources leaked information
that a military plane crashed on Monday 17/12/2012,
in Tuz Khormatu area without reference to the type
of aircraft and the party that dropped it.
Other reports mentioned that the Peshmerga force
fired
shots at an Iraqi aircraft.
The site considered the news as a step of fueling
the conflict between Baghdad and Erbil through
"leaking false information."
Tuz Khurmatu, on November 16, 2012,
witnessed fierce
clashes between
Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi Tigris (Dijla)
Operations Command TOC troops,www.ekurd.net
during which Two people were killed and 10 others
wounded.
The Dijla Operations Command was introduced by the
central government in June to be the main command of
the security and police in Kirkuk, Diyala and
Salahaddin – disputed territories that both Baghdad
and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) lay
claim to.
Iraq's Kurdistan region has
sent
reinforcements to a disputed area on November 24,
2012, where
its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi
army, a senior Kurdish military official said,
despite calls on both sides for dialogue to calm the
situation.
While Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stressed
that "the movement of the Iraqi army must be free on
every inch of the land of Iraq, and provinces or
territory have no right to object", describing the
movement of the Peshmerga in the disputed areas as
"legal and a constitutional violation."
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