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Kurdish rebels warn Turkey against joint
military action with US
19.12.2005
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ANKARA, Dec 19 (AFP) - 14h46 - The outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) warned Turkey Monday
that it would face "disaster" if it launched joint
military action with the United States to clean up
rebel camps in northern Iraq.
Turkish officials say thousands of PKK rebels have
found refuge in northern Iraq since 1999 and have
been infiltrating Turkey in increasing numbers this
year to carry out anti-government attacks.
Ankara has long pressed Washington to act against
the rebels and has threatened to carry out
cross-border incursions.
"Should a joint military attack with the US against
our movement come up on the agenda, it would be a
disaster and not a solution," senior PKK commander
Murat Karayilan said in an inteview with the Kurdish
Firat News Agency.
"It would lead to... long-running resistance," he
warned in the interview published on the agency's
Internet site. "No one would bow down, no matter how
intense the attacks may be."
The United States has so far been reluctant to
commit itself to military action against the PKK,
arguing instead for drying up the group's financial
resources.
Some 37,000 people have been killed since the PKK,
listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the
United States and the European Union, took up arms
for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey.
AFP
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