The Turkish state carried out another drone attack in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) on Thursday. The attack took place in the town of Sîdekan and targeted a vehicle moving along a busy road with three occupants. The RojNews news agency, citing local sources, reported that the airstrike did not result in any casualties. However, the car was completely burnt out.

The attack in the town of Sîdekan, which belongs to the district of Soran in the north-east of the KRI capital Hewlêr (Erbil) and lies close to the Iraq-Iran border, occurred at the same time as the inaugural visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to the KRI. The AKP politician, who is also the former head of the intelligence service MIT and is considered the planner of the Turkish state's drone war in Kurdistan, which is against international law, met with KDP President Massoud Barzani, KRI President Nechirvan Barzani and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Thursday. The main component of their agenda was the "fight against terror" - meaning the PKK. In Baghdad yesterday, Fidan called the PKK an "occupying force" and demanded that it be recognised as a terrorist organisation.

Turkish drone attacks in the KRI have remarkably increased in recent months. Baghdad and Erbil usually ignore these attacks and the international community also lets Ankara have its way in its war in Kurdistan. Turkey's drone war against the autonomous region of northern and eastern Syria also goes largely unnoticed internationally.