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Iraqi Kurdistan delegation in Baghdad on
Turkish threats
31.10.2007
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October
31, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
A Kurdish delegation, headed by Kurdistan
parliament's Speaker Adnan Mufti, arrived in Baghdad
on
Wednesday morning to discuss the issue of the
Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkish
threats to invade Kurdistan region, a parliamentary
media spokesman said.
"The delegation included the secretary of the
political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),
led by Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani,
and several Kurdish parliamentarians," Tareq Jawhar
said.
"The delegation is scheduled to meet with President
Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and
Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani," Jawhar indicated.
on Tuesday, speaking at a joint press conference, with Barzani,
in the Kurdish parliament after the session, Adnan
Mufti said "the parliament decided at the end of its
closed session to send a parliamentary delegation to
meet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to coordinate
with the Iraqi government on Turkish threats on
Iraq's Kurdistan region."
"The Iraqi government is the body authorized by the
constitution to defend Iraq's territories," he
affirmed.
On Friday, Iraq and Turkey ended talks on means of
defusing the tension between the two countries over
attacks allegedly launched by Turkey's PKK fighters
from bases in Kurdistan 'northern Iraq' against
Turkish army.
The Turkish parliament approved ten days ago a
memorandum forwarded by the government allowing the
Turkish army to hunt down members of the Turkey's
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in Kurdistan
'northern Iraq'. Only 19 out of 555 legislators in
the Turkish parliament voted against the proposal.
Turkey rejects direct talks with the Iraqi Kurdistan
regional government (KRG) on the crisis over the
Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
rebels.
Ankara has never, and still does not, recognize the
KRG and refuses to meet with its representatives in
any official capacity. That reflects Ankara's fear
that any international respect shown to the
autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region would only
embolden Turkey's own Kurdish minority to seek
similar home-rule status.
www.ekurd.net
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'. Turkey fears
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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