(3 Oct 2023)
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Dohuk - 02 October 2023
1. Man walking in village
HEADLINE: Iraqi villagers live in fear as Turkey intensifies strikes
2. Various of mountain top, UPSOUND: bombing in background
ANNOTATION: Turkey has intensified cross-border airstrikes on suspected targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK in northern Iraq.
4. Man pointing to mountain, UPSOUND (Kurdish): “That is the dust rising from their bombing that hits there, sometimes it hits further away, and sometimes it hits closer.”
5. Wide of village
6. Farmer Beshir Mohammed closing gate
7. Damaged building
ANNOTATION: Farmers in villages near the northern city of Dohuk said they feared for their security amid the ongoing airstrikes and artillery bombing.
8. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Beshir Mohammed, Segeri villager:
“It created a huge fear in the village. Two families in Segeri village have left, and the rest are living in fear.”
9. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Asia (no other names given), Segeri villager:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS WITH ASIA CLEANING AND PARTLY OVERLAID WITH ASIA HOLDING SHRAPNEL++
“We are scared of planes, we're scared of Turkish planes and artilleries. The whole village is evacuated, they bombed it all by the excuse of the PKK. This shrapnel hit next to our house. If it had hit anyone, it would kill them instantly.”
10. Various of village and mountains
ANNOTATION: The strikes in Iraq happened after the PKK carried out a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital Ankara.
STORYLINE:
Iraqi Farmers in villages near the northern city of Dohuk said they feared for their security amid ongoing Turkish airstrikes and artillery bombing.
Turkey has intensified cross-border airstrikes on suspected targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK in northern Iraq.
“It created a huge fear in the village. Two families in Segeri village have left, and the rest are living in fear,” said Beshir Mohammed, Segeri villager.
The strikes in Iraq happened after the PKK took responsibility for a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital Ankara.
The attack happened hours before Turkey's Parliament reopened after its three-month summer recess with an address by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
AP Video shot by Rashid Yahya
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