Turkish Red Crescent aids Turkmen in Iraq's Tuz Khormato

SALADIN, Iraq

The Turkish Red Crescent over the weekend delivered humanitarian aid to some 300 Turkmen families in the town of Tuz Khormato in Iraq’s north-central Saladin province.

Numerous homes in the town were damaged amid recent fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga and Turkmen forces, the latter of which are fighting under the umbrella of the Shia Al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia.

"In light of recent events [in Tuz Khormato], we have delivered humanitarian aid to a number of Turkmen families," Shafak Lostar, the Turkish Red Crescent’s coordinator in Iraq, told Anadolu Agency.

According to Lostar, aid deliveries were made in coordination with Turkey’s embassy in Baghdad and the Turkish consulate in Erbil.

The predominantly-Turkmen town of Tuz Khormato has recently witnessed a number of clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Shia Al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia in which more than a dozen people were killed and a number of homes set on fire.