Over 4,000 Displaced Due To PKK, Iraqi Army Fights

Thousands of people have been displaced as a result of fighting between the Iraqi army and the PKK terrorist group.

This is according to a statement by a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) official.

Hussein Klari, of the KRG interior ministry's crisis unit, told a press conference late Tuesday; "The latest violence led to the displacement of 710 families, or 4,083 people."

In the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an immigration ministry official who handles issues of internal displacement also said the situation in Sinjar had returned to normal.

He said; "These displacements are temporary. The security situation is very good."

The Sinjar region has also been a target of Turkish airstrikes on the rear bases of the PKK terrorists.

The PKK has bases and training camps in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq and on the mountainous border with Turkey.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) regularly conducts cross-border operations in northern Iraq, a region where PKK terrorists have hideouts and bases from which to carry out attacks on Turkey.

Turkey has long stressed that it will not tolerate terror threats posed against its national security and has called on Iraqi officials to take the necessary steps to eliminate the terrorist group.