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UN urged to act as Kurdish officials accuse Turkey of using refugee camp ‘as target practice’
Makhmour refugee camp in northern Iraq

KURDISH officials called on the United Nations today to ensure the immediate end of a nearly two-year embargo on a refugee camp in northern Iraq, and an end to Turkish military aggression.

The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) said that it was essential to lift the blockade to allow food and medical aid to reach the 12,000 residents of the UN-administered Makhmour refugee camp.

It also called on the Iraqi federal government to “act against violations of its national sovereignty,” after a recent Turkish air strike killed three civilians in the grounds of the camp.

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