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Iraqi MP calls for holding 'retaliation
conference' against Turkey
27.12.2006
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December 27, 2006
ANKARA , -- While former Iraqi Prime Minister
Ayad Allawi was having talks in Ankara on Tuesday, a
member of his Iraqi National Accord proposed hosting
a conference for Turkey's ethnic Kurds at the Iraqi
Parliament, in apparent retaliation for the
“Istanbul Conference” of the Iraqi Sunnis, held on
Dec. 13 and 14.
“We are against interfering in the internal affairs
of our neighbors,” Allawi said at a press conference
following his talks with senior Turkish officials,
when he was reminded of the proposal by Ayad
Cemalettin, a member of the Iraqi Parliament from
his national accord.
Cemalettin argued that it would be possible for a
parliamentary group or political party to host the
“Conference for Supporting Turkey's Kurds,” the
Dogan News Agency (DHA) reported on Tuesday, citing
a report on the Web site of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK).
“Such a conference will be a start for opening very
hot files that have so far had the Turkish
government's red lines on them,” Cemalettin was
quoted as saying by the agency, while he also
claimed that the Turkish government has continued to
interfere in the domestic affairs of Iraq. |
The National Assembly of Iraq |
Cemalettin said the conference hosted earlier this
month in Istanbul was an example of Turkey's
interference.
The conference at the time sparked harsh reaction by
Iraqi Shiite and Kurdish politicians, with many
condemning the conference for exacerbating the
sectarian divide.
The head of the SCIRI Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri,
said he found it unthinkable for a conference to
convene under the pretense of supporting the Iraqi
people while only inviting Sunnis, while Iraqi
President and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said
that Turkey's actions are strange: “On the one hand,
[Turkey allows] the inflamers of a sectarian war to
hold a congress and, on the other hand, it wants the
regional Kurdistan government to fight the PKK.”
Meanwhile, Iraq's special envoy for countering the
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), Shirwan al-Waili,
said the Iraqi government was against attempts like
the one Cemalettin offered, the agency reported.
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