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Delegation from Iraqi Kurdistan visits
Turkey to discuss PKK issue 12.11.2007
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November
12, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
A Kurdish delegation left for Turkey on Sunday to
discuss the issue of the Turkey's Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) and Turkish threats to hunt down its
fighters in Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, a
Kurdish source said.
"The delegation is expected to have talks with
Turkish officials on the Iraqi crisis with Turkey,"
the source, a member of Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), said.
The delegation is comprised of Ali Baber, the leader
of the Kurdish Islamic Group, Arslan Baez, a member
of the PUK politburo, Salah al-Din Bahaa al-Din, the
secretary general of the Kurdistan Islamic Union,
Muhammad Hadji Mahmoud, a leading member of the
Kurdistan Socialist Party, and Ezz al-Din Birwari, a
member of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region
President Massoud Barazani's Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP) politburo.
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The crisis on the Iraqi-Turkish borders flared up
during the past couple of weeks after the Turkey's
Kurdistan Worker's Party, PKK, which is outlawed in
Turkey, escalated operations against Turkish forces.
Fighters of the PKK, holed up in mountainous areas
in Kurdistan 'northern Iraq', had killed, wounded
and captured more than 40 Turkish soldiers as of
late.
After the PKK escalations, the Turkish government
received the thumbs up from parliament to carry out
a military operation against the PKK inside Iraq’s
Kurdistan region territories.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
Iraqi Kurdish politician says, Turkey is using
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.
Turkey rejects direct talks with Iraqi Kurdistan
government, Officially, Turkey does not recognise
the regional government of Kurdistan led by
president Massoud Barzani.
Turkey has never, and still does not, recognize the
Kurdistan region government (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
large Kurdish minority to seek similar home-rule
status.
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