June 6, 2006 (Awene), -- A group of
Kurdish intellectuals who live in Europe asked Iraqi president and
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani and Kurdistan Regional Government
president Massoud Barzani to play a mediating role between the
Turkish government and the PKK, according to Burhan Yaseen, an
intellectual and history professor at Sweden University.
(The PKK, also known as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, has fought the
Turkish government for Kurdish independence and has been accused of
carrying out terrorist acts.)
The Kurdish intellectuals are also attempting to hold a large
conference of parties and Kurdish figures to tackle the Kurdish role
in the Middle East.
Yaseen said the conference and mediation would help calm increasing
tensions (between the Turkish government and the PKK) and was in the
Kurds' interest.
Yaseen said they also want to address US-Kurdish relations in the
conference.
(Awene is an independent Kurdish newspaper issued weekly.)
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