Turkey denies carrying out deadly strikes in northern Iraq

By ALI ABD AL-HASAN and SAMYA KULLAB
Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister is rejecting accusations that the Turkish military carried out deadly strikes on tourists in northern Iraq. The families of the killed Iraqis buried their loved ones on Thursday. In Turkey, the foreign minister says Ankara is willing to cooperate with Baghdad to shed light on the “treacherous attack.” Artillery shells struck the resort area of Barakh in the Zakho district in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region the previous day, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 20. The Iraqi government convened an emergency national security meeting, summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad and ordered a pause in dispatching a new Iraqi ambassador to Ankara.