23 March 2018 - 18:12

PKK withdrawing from Shingal

<p style="text-align:left">The Kurdistan Worker&rsquo;s Party (PKK) is withdrawing from Shingal, in the north of Iraq, the Firat news agency cited a statement by the KCK umbrella group as saying.

The statement on Friday came after Turkey threatened military action there.

“Guerrilla forces intervened in Sinjar in order to rescue the Yazidis from genocide. With the confidence of reaching this goal, guerrillas are withdrawing from Shingal,” KCK said in a statement on Friday, the Firat news agency reported.

KCK is an umbrella group that includes the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), PYD (Democratic Union Party), PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party), and PCDK (Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party).

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