Turkish Airstrikes Leave Village Deserted

The Christian village of Sheranish in the Zakho province of Iraqi-Kurdistan has been devastated by airstrikes by the Turkish military aimed at the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which has been engaged in an ongoing militant campaign to create an autonomous Kurdish State in present day Turkey.  

Villager Amir Nissan testified that Turkey has relentlessly bombed the region, leading to widespread destruction of the local farms, and bombs have even fell on the village itself, forcing most of the local residents to flee.  Many of the villagers were refugees who fled from Baghdad and other areas of the nation to try and escape the ongoing violence, but now the violence has forced them to flee again.  

Turkey has defended its actions, claiming that they're trying to stop the militant PKK, who has been fighting their nation nation for decades and is considered by many nations (including the U.S.), to be a terrorist organization.  However, many of the villagers are complaining that their village is a predominantly Christian village and that there is little PKK activity in their area.  Others also believe that Turkey is secretly seeking to continue its growing persecution of the Christian minorities in the region, which is stirring up the terrible memory of how much of the Assyrian Christian population was slaughtered by Turkish forces during the 1915 Armenian Genocide, which ultimately claimed the lives of over three million Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christians in the region.  

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