Operation Claw Lock

During a special session of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, UN Special Representative in Iraq Jeanine Hennis Plasschaert said that the Turkish attack on Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan earlier this month showed “shocking disregard for civilian life”

The Iraqi government demanded an official apology from Turkey as well as the immediate withdrawal of all Turkish forces from the country. Opposition groups in Turkey called the attack against civilians a war crime

Scores of Iraqis have been killed since Turkish forces launched their so-called Operation Claw Lock in Iraqi Kurdistan in April, allegedly to fight the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)