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Russian senator warns Turkey against
intruding into Iraqi Kurdistan
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October
19, 2007
NEW YORK, --- A leading Russian senator
warned Turkey against intruding into Iraqi
Kurdistan, as that will destabilize the whole Middle
East and trigger the emergence of new quasi-states.
“Actually, that may begin to re-shape the political
map that has emerged after the dismantling of the
British and French colonial system in the Middle
East,” chairman of the international committee of
the Federation Council Mikhail Margelov told Tass on
Thursday commenting on the approval by Turkish
parliament of the military intervention plans
against Kurds in Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq'.
He warned that Iraq may disintegrate, and similar
processes will begin in the whole region.
“The creation of independent Kurdistan, and
moreover, the occupation of Kurdistan by Turkey,
which many Turkish politicians are speaking about,
can trigger unrest among the Kurds living in Syria
and other countries,” Margelov said. www.ekurd.net
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Russian senator Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the
international committee of the Federation Council |
Iraqi disintegration
will put an end to stability in the Middle East and
will result in the emergency of “new unrecognized
quasi-states, new hotbeds of tension, and unleashing
of new wars,” the senator warned.
itar-tass com
** Kurds are not recognized as an official minority
in Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in Big
Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media. The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish alphabet has led
to judicial persecution in 2000 and 2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
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