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Iran cooperation with Turkey against
Kurdish PKK
25.2.2006
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Iran shows greater
willingness to increase cooperation with Ankara in
security by extraditing 30 Kurdish PKK rebels to
Turkey. Sources say in the coming weeks around 45
more PKK members detained by Iran will also be
extradited to Turkey
The Iranian government is showing greater
willingness to strengthen cooperation with Turkey in
the security field and has recently extradited 30
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Rebels to Turkey,
Turkish sources said on Thursday.
Following the 11th Turkey-Iran High Security Council
session, which was held in Tehran last Tuesday, both
countries are preparing to upgrade the existing
legal framework in security cooperation. Turkish
sources said on Friday that the current legal
framework is based mainly on an agreement that dates
back more than 70 years, and following long
insistence by Turkey to revise it, the Iranian side
has just shown a stronger willingness to do that.
Turkish sources also noted that Iran recently
extradited 30 Kurds PKK members to Turkey, and 45
more PKK members detained by Iranian authorities are
expected to also sent to Turkey.
Last week, Iranian police clashed with a group of
PKK members along the Iranian-Turkish border and two
of the PKK members were killed.
Some 37,000 people have been killed since 1984 when
the PKK began an armed campaign against the Ankara
government for self-rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast.
The PKK is classed as a terrorist organisation by
the European Union and the United States.
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