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Kurdish Residents Flee Homes After Turkish Airstrikes Hit Village

HeadlineJul 30, 2015

In news from the Middle East, residents are fleeing the Kurdish village of Amadiya after Turkey’s heaviest airstrikes in two weeks pummeled the hillside town in northern Iraq. Turkey has said the targets of the airstrikes are the military camps of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. But residents of Amadiya say yesterday’s airstrikes struck civilian homes and fields.

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