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Talabani, Ahmedinejad discuss ways to
resolve Iraqi-Turkish crisis
29.10.2007
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October
29, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq, -- Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani discussed over the phone with his Iranian
counterpart Mahmoud Ahmedinejad means of peacefully
resolving the current political crisis with Turkey,
according to a presidential statement released on
Sunday.
"The Iranian president stressed during a phone call
with Talabani on Saturday evening his solidarity
with the Iraqi people's desire to live in peace and
expressed his willingness to make considerable
efforts to peacefully end the current tension along
the Iraqi-Turkish borders," said.
During the phone call, Talabani urged Ahmedinejad
to spare no effort to convince Turkish Foreign
Minister Ali Babacan, currently in Iran, to use
dialogue and peaceful means for resolving conflicts
instead of resorting to military action.
A high-ranking official Iraqi delegation, headed by
Minister of Defense Muhammad Abdul Qadir al-Obeidi,
arrived in Turkey on Thursday to discuss peaceful
solutions to the crisis that erupted between the two
countries.
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Iraqi President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
Turkey has amassed up to 100,000 troops along the
frontier in preparation for a cross-border operation
to crush about 3,000 guerrillas of the PKK, most
recently blamed for attacks that killed 15 Turkish
soldiers over two weeks ago.
The Turkish parliament approved a memorandum
forwarded by the government allowing the Turkish
army to hunt down members of the Turkey's Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), in Kurdistan region 'northern
Iraq'. Only 19 out of 555 legislators in the Turkish
parliament voted against the proposal.
Since 1984 the PKK
took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
VOI
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