On 23 August, a car carrying a group of media personnel from Sterk TV, owned by the Chatr Media Company, was hit, while on a reporting assignment, by an alleged Turkish drone attack on the road connecting Sulaymaniyah city and Said Sadiq district. The drone strike killed two women journalists, Gulistan Tara and Hero Bahadin.
The Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate of Sulaymaniyah Branch strongly condemned the killing. "We call on both the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Iraqi government to deploy maximum efforts, both through diplomatic or other means available, to put pressure on the Turkish government to prevent such violations committed by the Turkish army against journalists and civilians,"KJS said.
