Turkish fighter jets attacked the village of Babula on the slopes of Mount Gare on Thursday evening. According to reports from the ground, two villagers were killed in the bombing in the district of Sheladize. The victims are said to be the civilians Sait Mubarek and Aras Ferec. Sait Mubarek's son was injured in the attack.

The deadly attacks on the civilian population followed the Turkish regime leader's bold announcement that the PKK would be completely wiped out this summer. While the invading army has achieved little success against the guerrillas, it is taking the civilian population hostage and trying to drive them out with air strikes.

Since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unilaterally broke off the dialog process between the Kurdish pioneer Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish government in the summer of 2015, the Turkish army has carried out air and ground attacks in northern Iraq on a de facto daily basis under the pretext of "fighting the PKK", targeting not only the PKK guerrillas but also the civilian population, and repeatedly claiming living.

Only on Saturday, a farmer was injured in a Turkish airstrike near Amadiya. A week earlier, one person was killed in a drone strike on a building in Kelar.