Sunday, January 22, 2023

Turkey continues to attack Iraq

Last week, The Arabian Gulf Cup wrapped up with Iraq's The Lions of Mesopotamia being declared the victors.  Amal Abdulmalik (AL MADA) compares the enthusiasm witnessed to a "football wedding" and observes that Iraq last hosted the Gulf Cup almost 42 years ago.  Sinan Mahmoud (THE NATIONAL) points out, "It is the fourth time Iraq has won the Gulf Cup since it first took place in 1970."  SBA ASSYRIAN notes a foreign visitor stating, ""Iraqi shop and restaurant owners refused to charge us any money. This is unbelievable."

Meanwhile, the Queen of Mesopotamia himself, fading cult leader Moqtada al-Sadr, took it upon himself to show up and tell the team what to do.  Tell them what to do, of course, after they have won.  Seeing the joy and excitement the team has brought to Iraq, Moqtada wanted to try to latch onto their popularity to pull himself up.  So he hectored them on how they should conduct themselves and all these other things that they did need to hear.  No one needs advice from a forgotten man.

In other news, Dilan Sirwan (RUDAW) reported last week:

Iraq has told Turkey that they cannot expect a normal relationship with Baghdad while continuously violating its borders, the Iraqi President told Rudaw on Wednesday.

Speaking to Rudaw on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid said that Iraq considers Turkey an important neighboring country with many mutual interests, however Ankara’s violations of Iraqi sovereignty has become a matter of discontent.

“To be honest, the stance Turkey has in terms of entering Iraq, whether through army or aircrafts, has embarrassed the Iraqi government, the Kurdistan Regional government, and both Iraqi and Kurdish people, they all disapprove of this in every way,” Rashid said.


The actions of the Turkish government are acts of war -- legally defined acts of war.  They have bombed the Kurdistan, they have invaded on foot, they have set up military bases.  All is in violation of Iraq's sovereignty and all are acts of war.





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