The Head of the Kurdish NGO organization said that "a letter of protest was handed to the Turkish consulate in Erbil denouncing the killing of Kurdish citizens due to the Turkish aerial shelling against the bordering areas".

Adnan Anwer Bey added that representatives of 20 NGO organizations gathered before the Turkish consulate who demanded to "put to trial those who committed the crime".

The Turkish consulate promised to deliver the message to the competent authorities.