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Talabani calls for amnesty for PKK in
Turkey
6.11.2006 |
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Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani has once again called for an amnesty for
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
claiming that the Kurdish problem would be resolved
if Turkey were to issue an amnesty for the PKK.
“If an amnesty is declared, the Kurdish problem will
have been completely resolved,” Talabani said,
according to the Web site of his Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK). He was delivering remarks during a
conference last week in the French capital of Paris.
Talabani also claimed that the PKK declared a
cease-fire at “our request” and said he would not
allow the use of Iraqi soil as a base for attacks
launched against other countries. The PKK,
considered to be a terrorist organization by the
European Union, the United States and Turkey,
declared a unilateral cease-fire on Oct. 1. The move
was dismissed as a publicity stunt by the government
and the military.
Talabani extended support for Turkey's bid to join
the EU and said Ankara's membership would bring
important opportunities to Iraq.
More than 37,000 lives have been lost in the Kurdish
insurrection which began in 1984 with Kurdish
demands for independence for the southeastern and
heavily Kurdish Anatolia region. |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd
Photo: Military |
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which covers an area as big as France, about half of
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