Nujiyan Erhan, journalist injured in Shingal clashes, has died
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Nujiyan Erhan, a journalist injured when covering clashes between Rojava Peshmerga and Shingal Protection Units (YBS) earlier this month, has died of her injuries.
Erhan was reportedly injured in the area between Snuny and Khanasoor in the Shingal region on March 3.
The PKK-linked ANF News said that she had been in intensive care after undergoing surgery.
“Nujiyan was at the same time the voice of Yezidi women in pain,” the Democratic Press Union (YRD) said in a statement issued in the days after she was wounded, according to ANF. “She was the voice of those mothers who were left barefoot, thirsty and hungry, but still did not leave their lands. Targeting Nujiyan does therefore mean targeting the Yezidi women, it is a crime. This attack has clearly targeted the press.”
Erhan’s cameraman was also wounded, but not critically.
On March 3, clashes erupted between the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Rojava Peshmerga and the PKK-backed YBS in the Khanasoor area on the north side of Mount Shingal. Both sides accuse the other of opening fire first.
The Rojava Peshmerga, a force made up of Kurds from Syria, said the YBS prevented them from carrying out a deployment in the area. The YBS said they reject the presence of a foreign force on their territory.
The YPJ, the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in northern Syria, blamed the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for Erhan’s death, ANF reported.
Erhan was reportedly injured in the area between Snuny and Khanasoor in the Shingal region on March 3.
The PKK-linked ANF News said that she had been in intensive care after undergoing surgery.
“Nujiyan was at the same time the voice of Yezidi women in pain,” the Democratic Press Union (YRD) said in a statement issued in the days after she was wounded, according to ANF. “She was the voice of those mothers who were left barefoot, thirsty and hungry, but still did not leave their lands. Targeting Nujiyan does therefore mean targeting the Yezidi women, it is a crime. This attack has clearly targeted the press.”
Erhan’s cameraman was also wounded, but not critically.
On March 3, clashes erupted between the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Rojava Peshmerga and the PKK-backed YBS in the Khanasoor area on the north side of Mount Shingal. Both sides accuse the other of opening fire first.
The Rojava Peshmerga, a force made up of Kurds from Syria, said the YBS prevented them from carrying out a deployment in the area. The YBS said they reject the presence of a foreign force on their territory.
The YPJ, the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in northern Syria, blamed the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for Erhan’s death, ANF reported.