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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a joint news conference with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, August 17, 2021
TURKEY has been accused of deliberately preventing the return of Yazidi people to their Shengal homeland in northern Iraq after three people were killed in an air strike on a busy marketplace on Monday.
The Shengal resistance units (YBS), the reported target of the attack, accused the Turkish state of continuing its attempted genocide of the Yazidi people and their right to self-governance.
YBS commander Seid Hesen and his nephew were killed, along with Shengal women’s unit (YBJ) fighter Isa Xwededa, when a missile struck their vehicle in the bazaar in Shengal city centre.
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