Following the Military Memorandum of Understanding signed between Ankara and Baghdad on 15 August with the complicity of the KDP, the occupying Turkish state escalated its attacks against civilians.

After the agreement, at least 9 civilians were killed and 9 others were injured in the attacks carried out by the Turkish state in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).

While Turkey's attacks against civilians in less than a month caused national and international reactions, Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government authorities have remained silent.

In the continued attacks in Sulaymaniyah and Duhok countryside, many civilians, including children and women, were killed.

On 3 September, an artillery attack by the occupying Turkish state targeted Merge Hewş village in Sinînê highland, in Sîdekan district in the Biradost region of Hewlêr (Erbil). A citizen named Bedi Kemal Muhammed was martyred in the attack.

On 4 September, a Turkish UCAV bombed a vehicle on the Xelekan-Kaniwatman road in Dukan district of Sulaymaniyah. Muzaffer Hussein Xidir and his 2 sons, Muhammad Muzaffer (15) and Mubin Muzaffer (12), who came from Haji Awa, were killed in the attack.

Another UCAV attack by the occupying Turkish state targeted another civilian vehicle on 5 September in Hermêle village in Çiwarta sub-district in Şarbajêr district of Sulaymaniyah. In this brutal attack, 3 people, including a child, were martyred.

Most recently, on 10 September, a house in the Şehit Rustem Cudî Refugee Camp in Maxmur was bombed by Turkey, injuring three women.

Since the beginning of 2023, at least 20 people have lost their lives and as many people have been injured in the attacks. In addition, many new occupation bases were established, and residents of hundreds of villages were forced to migrate. Vineyards and gardens belonging to villagers were destroyed and civilian infrastructure was targeted and damaged.