Iraqi soldiers on the outskirts of Makhmour, located 75 km from Mosul, on March 26. (Credit: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Only a few weeks remain before its dismantlement. Turkey, Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) reached an agreement in early August to evacuate the Makhmour refugee camp — a stronghold of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — in northern Iraq by September, according to sources cited by Middle East Eye (MEE).Just days earlier, in a letter addressed to the camp’s 10,000 residents and read aloud by the Council of Martyrs’ Families, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan urged his followers to accept the evacuation without resistance. The appeal followed his May 12 announcement that the armed group would dissolve after months of negotiations with the Turkish government, which designates the PKK as a terrorist organization. More on the topic Turkey: Kurds' gains after PKK dissolution Öcalan acknowledged Makhmour’s historic role in the...
Only a few weeks remain before its dismantlement. Turkey, Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) reached an agreement in early August to evacuate the Makhmour refugee camp — a stronghold of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — in northern Iraq by September, according to sources cited by Middle East Eye (MEE).Just days earlier, in a letter addressed to the camp’s 10,000 residents and read aloud by the Council of Martyrs’ Families, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan urged his followers to accept the evacuation without resistance. The appeal followed his May 12 announcement that the armed group would dissolve after months of negotiations with the Turkish government, which designates the PKK as a terrorist organization. More on the topic Turkey: Kurds' gains after PKK dissolution Öcalan acknowledged Makhmour’s historic...
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