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Sulaimaniyah, 29 August (AKI) - Amid reports
that the United States and Turkey are preparing an
attack against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)'s
headquarters in Qindil hills of northern Iraq - an
area which borders Iran and Turkey - a Kurdish
leader has warned that the separatist group will put
up a fight.
Muhammad Fa'iq Kawalbi, president of Iraqi Kurdish
party, Democratic Solution, told a Sulaimaniyah-based
Kurdish newspapaer, Aso, that "if American troops
attack PKK headquarters on Qindil hills, Kurdish
fighters will descend from the mountains into Iraqi
and Turkish cities and lead similar operations to
those conducted by terrorist groups such as [the
al-Qaeda linked Kurdish group] Ansar al-Sunna."
Washington considers the PKK a terrorist
organisation, but according to Kawalbi, while the
PKK has wrongly killed innocent people, the US are
behaving far worse in Iraq and the PKK "has not even
committed half the number of terrorist attacks that
Turkey has," Kawalbi said.
Turkey, in exchange for its supports to Washington's
Middle East policy, has asked the United States to
back its fight against the PKK by labelling it a
terrorist group, he said.
Reports of a possible US-Turkey strike against PKK
positions in Iraq come in the wake of a recently
announced truce by the PKK and an apparent softening
by Ankara of its position towards the Turkey's
Kurdish minority's demands for greater autonomy.
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
recently described the issue as "Kurdish problem",
in contrast to the official line which views the
Kurdish question only as a "terrorism problem".
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