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Turkey has given its support to a federated
structure for Iraq, according to a representative of
one of the main Kurdish factions in Iraq.
May 10— The son of Iraqi President Jelal Talabani
said that the terrorist PKK question could not be
resolved by military measures and called on Ankara
to declare an amnesty.
According to Kubat Talabani, who is both the
representative of the Patriotic Union for Kurdistan
in New York and the son of Iraq’s newly elected
president, Jelal Talabani, Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a letter to the Iraqi
head of state that Ankara backed a federal
structure.
Kubat Talabani told a foreign relations council
meeting that Erdogan’s letter signified the first
time that Ankara had accepted a federalist concept
for Iraq.
Kubat Talabani added that in the dreams of the
Kurdish people were fro an independent Kurdish state
but that Kurdish leaders accepted that fact that it
was not realistic in the present circumstances.
Talabani said that they would do their best to allay
Turkish concerns over the establishing of an
independent Kurdish state.
On the controversial question of the ethnic balance
in the oil rich city of Kirkuk, Kubat Talabani said
that there was need for a legal process to allow the
Kurds who had been driven out of Kirkuk during the
rule of Saddam Hussein to return to their homes.
“If they do not receive a legal process they might
try to get justice by their own hands,” he said.
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