PKK terrorists did not withdraw from Sinjar: KRG

'We are waiting for the Sinjar Agreement to be implemented, but it has not yet been applied,' KRG premier says

ERBIL (AA) – The Prime Minister of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Masrour Barzani, said Wednesday that the PKK terror group has not withdrawn from Sinjar district in Nineveh province.

"We are waiting for the Sinjar Agreement to be implemented, but it has not yet been applied,” Barzani told reporters.

He went on to say that "the PKK and other affiliated forces have not withdrawn from Sinjar. They just changed their clothes for a few hours and went to Mount Sinjar and returned again. On the contrary, their number increased even more."

The Sinjar deal, inked between Baghdad and Erbil under the auspices of the UN on the status of the region, envisages clearing the region of the PKK terrorists.

The PKK terror organization managed to establish a foothold in Sinjar in 2014 under the pretext of protecting the Ezidi community from Daesh/ISIS terrorists. Some 450,000 Ezidis fled Sinjar after Daesh/ISIS took control of the region.

*Writing by Mahmoud Barakat

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