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Turkey Deports Iraqi Kurds - Media
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10.11.2006
Press from 9.November.2006
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Turkey Deports Iraqi Kurds
(Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed)
A security source in the border town of Zakho, in
Kurdistan region of Duhok province, said that Turkey
deported 115 people from Iraqi Kurdistan who had
entered the country illegally. The were handed over
to Iraqi Kurdish officials at the Ibraheem Khaleel
border point.
The illegal immigrants were mostly from Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil and Duhok provinces and had paid smugglers
around four to seven thousand US dollars to take
them to Europe.
The Turkish authorities returned 120 illegal
immigrants to Iraqi Kurdistan on October 20. Iraqi
Kurdish authorities are looking to tighten border
security.
According to border police in Zakho, 600 people have
been arrested trying to enter Turkey illegally. Most
of those who try to leave Iraqi Kurdistan are
between 20 to30 years old.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed
is an independent daily paper.)
Iraqi Foreign Minister Criticises Neighbours
(Asharq al-Awsat)
Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari has accsued a
number of neighbouring countries of interfering in
Iraqi affairs. Zebari warned that his country has
options to consider in dealing with these countries.
This came in a detailed statement to Asharq al-Awsat
in Paris where he was accompanying Iraqi president
Jalal Talabani on an official visit.
(London-based
Asharq al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi independent paper, is
issued daily.)
Ba'ath Party Warning Over Saddam Sentence
(Azzaman)
The banned Ba'ath Party in Iraqi threatened that it
would attack the Green Zone in Baghdad if the death
sentence against ousted president Saddam Husein was
implemented.
The Ba'ath party said that if Saddam was executed,
it would reject all negotiations - and instead focus
on supporting the "resistance". The party added that
it would do its best to attack the Green Zone and
destroy the American embassy.
Iraqi officials have not responded to the statement.
(London-based
Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.)
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