Popular anger in Kurdistan after the workers' party bombed the "people's sustenance" pipeline

ARK News… The PKK exploded popular anger in the Kurdistan Region after it targeted the region's oil export pipeline that passes deep into Turkish territory, which greatly affected public revenues in light of a stifling financial and economic crisis.

The Kurdistan Regional Government announced that the oil export process was stopped after its oil pipeline was subjected to a "terrorist act", and warned against targeting citizens' livelihoods.

Concurrently, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for destroying the oil pipeline that passes through the Paghok region of Mardin in southeastern Turkey.

Economists say that sabotaging the oil pipeline would expose the Kurdistan Regional Government to additional pressure since it concluded an agreement with Baghdad to normalize the situation in Shingal (Sinjar), an agreement aimed at removing the PKK from the strategic area.

Citizens expressed their anger at the actions of the Workers' Party, which brought their areas nothing but devastation and destruction, and justified foreign interventions and incursions.

Sardar Bilbas, a citizen of Erbil, told Kurdistan 24, "The oil pipeline means sustenance for the people of the Kurdistan Region, and the Kurdistan Workers Party must stop these terrorist acts."

Economists believe that the economic losses resulting from the explosion of the Kurdistan Region oil pipeline will affect the overall economic situation in the region. Experts indicated that the PKK struck the people's livelihood in order to put economic pressure on the government.

The economist Muhammad Ali told Kurdistan 24 that the oil pipeline bombing aims to inflict two losses, one of which is related to stopping revenues, and the second is the loss of the buyers of crude.

"There is a hand that wants to undermine the situation and stand against the reforms undertaken by the Kurdistan Regional Government."

The Kurdistan Workers' Party has previously targeted the interests of citizens in the Kurdistan Region, especially those related to their daily sustenance and living.

Observers agree that what the PKK did is a "terrorist act" through which it seeks to exert political and economic pressure on the Kurdistan Region.

Helmet Gharib, a political observer, told Kurdistan 24, "Of course, this is a terrorist act, and the PKK knows that the Kurdistan Region is now in a stifling economic crisis, and it realizes that this will have a great impact."

And the Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement in which it condemned the bombing of its oil pipeline, that this action will cause aggravation of matters in the region and the region in general.

It indicated that it would not allow its interests to be threatened and would not accept targeting the sustenance of the region’s citizens under any circumstances.

And the Kurdistan Regional Security Council had previously announced the dismantling of cells linked to the Kurdish workers who were planning to launch attacks on diplomats and foreign businessmen in the cities of the region.

In a statement issued a few days ago, the Council said that the Workers' Party’s plans prove that "there are continuous threats targeting the security and stability of the Kurdistan Region."

Source: Kurdistan 24 ) translated from Arabic(

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