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Iraqi Kurdistan president
suggests talks with
Turkey over PKK
29.10.2007 |
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October
29, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',--
Iraqi Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani
called on Sunday for direct talks with Turkey to
break the deadlock over the problem of Turkey's
rebel fighters hiding out in northern Iraq.
"Let us sit down together to resolve the Kurdish
question," he said during an interview with AFP in
the Kurdistan regional capital of Erbil.
The call came as pressure mounted for Baghdad and
Ankara to find a solution to the problem of
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters launching
assaults against Turkish positions from bases in
Iraq's kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq'.
A high-level Iraqi delegation travelled to Ankara on
Friday to try to dissuade Turkish leaders from
launching an incursion but failed to satisfy their
concerns.
Barzani said the regional Kurdish administration
"should be consulted by the federal government.
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Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional
Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq' |
"I am not an enemy of Turkey, but I do not accept
the language of force," said Barzani, the president
of the region since 2005.
AFP
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