<p style="text-align: left;">In a statement on Twitter, Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned Ambassador Fatih Yildiz on Thursday because of a “Turkish army fighter plane violating Iraqi airspace, and bombing a refugee camp near [Makhmour] that claimed the lives of two women.”<br /> On Wednesday, news outlets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq reported that one air attack killed three civilians near a refugee camp in the mountainous Makhmour region and another destroyed a shelter belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the city of Rawanduz.<br /> Speaking to Kurdish news outlet Rudaw, the head of the Makhmour camp confirmed three women died in Wednesday’s strikes.<br /> “Two women were killed immediately by the airstrikes, and another woman succumbed to her grave injuries and passed away later on,” Bewar Amin said.<br /> Turkey made no mention of civilian casualties in its version of events, which said the Turkish fighter jets had “neutralized four PKK terrorists as part of a counterterrorism operation.” The National Defense Ministry also said the airstrikes Wednesday occured in the Qandil region near the Iraq-Iran border, not Makhmour.<br /> During their meeting in Baghdad Thursday, Ambassador Yildiz told Iraqi officials his country would continue to exercise its “right to legitimate self-defense,” according to state-run Anadolu Agency. Yildiz also said Turkey’s military campaign in Iraq is in compliance with international law.<br /> Under its “Operation Claw” military campaign, Turkey has targeted PKK strongholds in neighboring Iraq that it says are used by the militants to launch cross-border attacks inside Turkey.<br /> In January, Turkish airstrikes killed at least four Yazidi fighters affiliated with the PKK in northern Iraq’s Sinjar Mountains region.<br /> The PKK’s decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state has left more than 40,000 dead on both sides. Turkey, the United States and the European Union all label the Kurdish group a terrorist organization.<br /> Reporter's code: 50101</p>