A day of national mourning was declared in Iraq on Thursday for the victims of an attack attributed to Turkey on a tourist resort in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of the country.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi made the announcement, after an attack targeted the village of Parkhe in the Darkar sub-district of the region on Wednesday afternoon, leaving nine tourists, including children and women, dead and 23 others injured. Some reports said artillery rounds had been fired while others said an airstrike had been carried out.
According to Chiya Amin, head of the tourism directorate of Zakho City, the victims were part of a 200-strong group from the capital, Baghdad.
Al-Kadhimi ordered the formation of an investigative committee, headed by Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein and made up of several high-ranking security officials, in order to thoroughly look into the circumstances surrounding the incident. He also blamed it on Turkey.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry stressed that a diplomatic response at the highest level will be adopted in connection with the deadly artillery attack, and the case will be referred to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Iraq’s Council of Representatives also tasked the country’s Foreign Ministry to document all the alleged Turkish strikes in northern Iraq and violations of its sovereignty, in order to use it as a basis for filing an urgent complaint against Ankara at the UNSC.
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