A joint statement




The Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate and Metro Center strongly condemn the criminal operation that led to the assassination of the two journalists (Hero Baha al-Din and Golestan Tara) working for Sterk TV, which is licensed by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The two journalists were martyred in a bombing carried out by a drone.


On Friday morning, August 23rd, 2024, on the road linking the of Sulaymaniyah city and the district of Sayyid Sadiq (60 km east of Sulaymaniyah), a Turkish drone bombed a car carrying a group of media personnel from Sterk TV, which works within the framework of the Chatr Media Company licensed by the Kurdistan Regional Government.


The drone strike resulted in the car being hit, which resulted in the martyrdom of the two journalists (Golestan Tara and Hero Baha al-Din), and (Rebin Bakr), the person responsible for digital media for the Chatr Media Company, was seriously injured in the attack.

That afternoon, a joint press conference was held by the Metro Center, the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate, and the Chatr Media Company in front of the Forensic Medicine Center, after the bodies of the two martyrs were transferred to the Forensic Medicine Center. The participants in the joint conference strongly condemned the crime of assassinating the female journalists.

This is not the first time that the Turkish army has targeted journalists. On July 8, the Turkish air force targeted journalists from Chra TV, Tizi and Chra FM in a Qasabi complex in Sinjar district. The bombing led to the martyrdom of journalist Murad Mirza and the serious injury of journalists Madya Hassan and Khalaf Haidar.


Metro Center and the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate, Sulaymaniyah Branch, strongly condemn this heinous crime that resulted in the martyrdom of the two journalists (Hero Baha al-Din and Golestan Tara) and the injury of the journalist Rebin Bakr.


Metro Center and the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate also call on both the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Iraqi government to exert maximum efforts, whether through diplomatic means or other means available to the two governments, to pressure the Turkish government to prevent such violations committed by the Turkish army against journalists and civilian citizens.


Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

23 /8/2024




PM:01:19:24/08/2024




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