The Iraqi Foreign Ministry handed Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Ali Rize Konai a sharply worded note of protest against the backdrop of yesterday’s attack in Dahuk, while calling for the withdrawal of his country’s troops from Iraqi territory.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had summoned Turkish Ambassador to Iraq Ali Reza Konai amid a flagrant and criminal attack targeting a tourist resort in the village of Barkh/Darkkar district in the Dahuk province of Kurdistan in Iraq on 7/2022, resulting in the death and injury of a large number of safe Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and to intimidate the population into panic.

According to the statement, the ministry handed “a sharp note of protest to the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, which contained the condemnation by the Iraqi government of this heinous crime committed by the Turkish forces, which was the culmination of their continuous attacks on the sovereignty and inviolability of Iraq and took on a provocative character, with a very provocative and brutal attack.” Iraqi cities.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry reaffirmed “Iraq’s right to take all measures guaranteed by international conventions that will protect its sovereignty, territory and the security of its citizens from brutal and reprehensible attacks.”

And she stressed that “Iraq, demanding the withdrawal of all Turkish forces from Iraqi territory, calls on Turkey to solve its internal problems away from the borders of Iraq and causing harm to its people, and requires it to make a formal apology to the martyrs, wounded and wounded.”