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Mazloum Abdi, leader of Syrian Kurdish forces, announced direct communication with Turkey and expressed openness to improving relations, including potential meetings with President Erdogan, amid recent ceasefire and diplomatic developments.
The Iraqi government has called on Turkey to apologize for an alleged drone attack on Sulaymaniyah airport in northern Iraq. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said its chief, Mazloum Abdi, was at the airport at the time of the alleged attack but "no harm was done". Turkey has conducted several military operations including air strikes over the decades in northern Iraq and northern Syria against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, Islamic State and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The commander of the US-backed force in Syria and Iraq's presidency have condemned what they say was a Turkish attack on an airport in northern Iraq. The US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces confirmed that its chief commander, Mazloum Abdi, was at the airport in northern Iraq at the time of the attack but withheld information until he returned home safely. Turkey has spent years fighting Kurdish militants in its east and large Kurdish communities live in neighboring Iraq and Syria, where they have a degree of self-rule.