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Demonstration in Kurdistan-Zakho against
Turkish parliament's decision
20.10.2007 |
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October
20, 2007
Duhok, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', -- Thousands
of residents in northern Duhok's Zakho district took
to the streets on Saturday morning to protest a
decision adopted by the Turkish parliament to
authorize the Turkish government to hunt down the
banned Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK)
separatists in Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq'.
"The Turkish parliament's decision violates Iraq's
sovereignty and serves the interests of terrorists
inside the country by creating chaos," the head of
Kurdistan's region Students' Union in Zakho,
Muhammad Bashir, said.
"We call on the Turkish people to pressurize its
government into halting any military operation
inside the region," Bashir indicated.
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Thousands of Kurds mount peaceful protest against
threat of Turkish attack |
"Protestors submitted a memorandum to the mayor of
Zakho, Hussein Jalti, in which they called for
dialogue and rejected Turkish threats to invade the
region," according to VOI correspondent who attended
the demonstration.
A source from the union said earlier that eight
civil society organizations will stage
demonstrations in Zakho on Saturday to protest the
parliament's decision.
In the presence of Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish parliament on Wednesday
voted to allow military strikes against Turkey's
Kurdish PKK separatists in Kurdistan region
'northern Iraq', most recently blamed for attacks
that killed 15 soldiers early this month.
Only 19 Turkish lawmakers out of the 555 parliament
members voted against the bill, which permitted any
Turkish incursion into northern Iraq to pursue
fighters allegedly using mountain areas in northern
Iraq as a base to attack Turkish targets.
The motion came at a time that both Iraq and the
U.S. urged Turkey to show self-restraint and to seek
a peaceful approach to the crisis.
Zakho district is located 50 km north of Duhok, the
third province within Iraq's Kurdistan region which
lies 460 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad and
has borders with Turkey.
VOI
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