The command said in a tweet posted to the official Twitter account of the Security Media Cell that “we deplore the penetration of Iraqi airspace by the Turkish planes,” adding that Turkish forces penetrated 193 kilometers into Iraqi airspace and targeted displacement camps near Makhmour and Sinjar.

According to NRT it continued “this provocative behavior is not in line with the obligations of a good neighbor in accordance with international agreements and is a flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty.”

“Therefore, these violations must be stopped with respect and commitment to the common interests between the two countries. We call for them not to occur again.”

In the early hours of Monday, Turkish warplanes struck multiple targets, including on Mount Sinjar and in Qandil and Makhmour, in what it called “Operation Claw-Eagle.”

The pro-PKK Firat news agency said the strikes had targeted a UN-assisted refugee camp in Makhmour lying 50 kilometers southwest of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that is home to more than 10,000 ethnic Kurds fleeing violence in Turkey since the 1990s. PKK-affiliated militias are stationed nearby.

The PKK said it had suffered no casualties and vowed “to respond in the strongest possible manner to all attacks on our forces.”

Ankara routinely conducts cross-border attacks against alleged targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which sometimes result in civilian casualties. It was not immediately clear whether there were any deaths as a result of the most recent round of airstrikes.

The strikes on Mount Sinjar and Makhmour in particular sparked outrage on social media given the proximity of the strike targets to camps sheltering internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees.

Despite the Iraqi government’s condemnation of the Turkish attack, Baghdad also appeared ready to work with Ankara on security in the area.

“Iraq is fully prepared for cooperation between the two countries to control the security conditions on the common border,” the Joint Operations Command statement concluded.

As of early afternoon, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which has extensive political and economic ties with Turkey, has not yet released a comment on the attack.

Turkey justified the attack by saying that the PKK was “threatening the security of our people and borders.”

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