Türkiye remembers diplomat killed in northern Iraq attack

By Diyar Guldogan

ANKARA (AA) - The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday remembered a Turkish diplomat killed in a 2019 terrorist attack in Erbil, northern Iraq.

"We commemorate with respect our martyr Osman Kose, official of the Consulate General in Erbil, assassinated in a heinous attack by the terrorist organization PKK on July 17, 2019," the ministry said on Twitter.

In 2019, Kose, who was serving at Türkiye's Consulate General in Erbil, was killed in an armed attack on a restaurant. Apart from the diplomat, two Iraqi nationals sitting at a nearby table were also killed.

In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the US, and the EU – has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The YPG is the terror group’s Syrian offshoot.