The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organization, which is backing the Peshmerga forces, is using child soldiers in Kirkuk. Armed PKK terrorists are stationed around armored vehicles belonging to the Peshmerga.
The number of PKK terrorists in the city has allegedly reached 1,200. Footage from the region shows that the majority of passengers in PKK vehicles are children. The children armed by the PKK and deployed on the city streets are under 18.
Global organizations such as the Human Rights Watch have stated that the PKK's Syrian extension, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), used children as young as 12 as soldiers. The U.S.-backed terror organization trains children in Syria as well as Iraq’s Sinjar in terror camps, and then dispatches the child soldiers across various areas.
The PKK was allowed into the city by Najmiddin Karim, the former governor of Kirkuk who was removed from office by the Iraqi parliament.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.
