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Kurdistan asks PKK to cease military
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October
22, 2007
Baghdad, -- Kurdish lawmaker from the
Kurdistan Coalition, Dr Mahmoud Othman, said on
Monday that the Kurdish side had asked the Kurdistan
Workers Party's (PKK) to cease all military
operations against the Turkish army as it considered
them useless.
"Iraq's Kurdistan believes that the PKK has to cease
all military operations against the Turkish army and
use dialogue to resolve all problems with the
Turkish side. It further believes that Turkey has to
make constitutional reforms and recognize the
Kurdish rights," Othman said
He held Turkey responsibility for the PKK's presence
in the Iraqi territories because of what he termed
as "state terrorism" and the use of violence against
Turkey's Kurds.
"It would be best if Turkey issues a general pardon
for the PKK," he affirmed. |
Dr
Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish legislator, member of the
Kurdistan National Democratic Union |
"A large number of Turkey's Kurds are now in
Makhmour camp in Kurdistan, supervised by the U.N.,
who escaped from the Turkish army's attacks," the MP
added.
On Sunday, the Turkish army said 12 soldiers were
killed and 15 others were wounded during clashes
with Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) fighters.
Meanwhile, a PKK foreign relations official claimed
that the Turkish army "lost more than it announced"
during the clashes that occurred on Saturday evening
along the Iraqi-Turkish borders.
The Turkish parliament approved on Wednesday a
memorandum forwarded by the government allowing the
Turkish army to hunt down members of the PKK, or
Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan in Kurdish, in autonomous
Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq'. Only 19 out of 555
legislators in the Turkish parliament voted against
the proposal.
The Turkish parliament made the decision after PKK
fighters on the Turkish-Iraqi Kurdistan border areas
waged armed attacks that killed nearly 15 Turkish
soldiers two weeks ago.
Iraqi Kurds says, the PKK problem is an "internal
Turkish problem," Iraqi Kurdish politician
says, Turkey is using a Kurdish separatist PKK rebel
group as an excuse to invade Kurdistan region 'Iraq'
to prevent the establishment of Kurdistan state in
the Kurdish autonomous region in 'northern Iraq',
this could fan separatism among its own large
Kurdish population in southeast Turkey.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
VOI
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