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Iraq Kurdistan government deny presence of
PKK offices
25.10.2007
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Mahmud Othman: PKK do not have any office in
Kurdistan, nor in other parts of Iraq
October
25, 2007
SULAIMANIYAH, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', ---
The autonomous Kurdistan regional government (KRG)
in northern Iraq denied on Thursday that there were
any offices of the Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) in the region.
"There is no office of the PKK in the Kurdish
region" of Iraq, Jamal Abdallah, spokesman of the
regional government, told AFP, dismissing Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki's order to shut down the
offices of the rebel group.
"As far as the regional Kurdistan administration is
concerned, we have no idea about such an office.
"But if Prime Minister Maliki knows about such an
office in Iraq, let him close it. We do not know
what the prime minister meant about closing the PKK
offices. Where are these offices? What kind of
offices do they have? Where are they located."
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Dr
Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish legislator, member of the
Kurdistan National Democratic Union |
On Tuesday, Maliki ordered the closure of all
offices of the PKK in Iraq in what was seen as a
concession to intense pressure from Washington and
Ankara following deadly attacks by the rebels
against the Turkish army.
Kurdish MP Dr Mahmud Othman also denied there were
any PKK office in Iraq.
"They do not have any office in Kurdistan, nor in
other parts of Iraq," Othman said in Baghdad.
He said the PKK had used two flats in Baghdad to
promote cultural activities but the "government
closed them last year".
"The PKK has military bases in Qandil mountains (on
the Turkish border) and I wonder how the prime
minister is going to close them," Othman said.
"The Iraqi government is giving promises but cannot
implement any of these promises. Why should they
give promises?"
AFP
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