|
British PM: Turkey must engage Iraq in
talks on Kurdish PKK rebels
22.10.2007
|
|
|
|
October 22, 2007
LONDON, UK, -- Turkey should be patient in
response to a deadly weekend attack by Turkey's
Kurdish PKK rebels, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said
Monday.
Turkey has threatened to send its military across
the Iraqi Kurdistan border to fight Turkey's Kurdish
PKK rebels based in Iraq's Kurdistan region
'northern Iraq'.
Brown's spokesman, Michael Ellam, repeated the
British government's condemnation of Sunday's ambush
by Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party,
or PKK, which killed 12 Turkish soldiers.
"I think the government's general position is that
the PKK is trying to undermine the Turkish
government's efforts to improve the situation of the
people in the southeast of the country and to
provoke conflict between Turkey and Iraq and damage
regional stability," Ellam said.
"It is the government's position that we encourage
the Turkish government to continue to seek a
solution through dialogue with the Iraqi
government," Ellam told reporters. |
Brown says Turkish government should continue to
seek a solution through dialogue with the Iraqi
government |
Iraqi Kurds says, the PKK problem is an "internal
Turkish problem,"
The speaker of the Kurdish parliament, Adnan
al-Mufti said, Turkey is not really after the PKK
rebels but wanted to eliminate the idea of an
autonomous Kurdistan.
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'.
Ankara is anxious to prevent the emergence of a
Kurdish state in Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq',
fearing this could fan separatism among its own
large Kurdish population in southeast Turkey. Turkey
is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
AP | Agencies
Top |
Kurd Net
does not take credit for and is not responsible for the content of news
information on this page
|
® 