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Iraq PM offers money to Kurdish families
fleeing Turkish bombings
31.12.2007
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December
31, 2007
Baghdad, -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
has ordered the government to pay one million dinars
(830 dollars) to every Kurdish family displaced by
Turkish bombings, his office said on Sunday.
"The prime minister has ordered the formation of a
committee that will visit these families and pay
each of them a million dinars," a statement said,
adding that the aid will be given in coordination
with the Iraqi Red Crescent.
It did not say how many families have been displaced
by the Turkish bombings in northern Iraq's Kurdistan
autonomous region. |
Iraqi Prime minister Jawad Nuri al-Maliki |
In the past few weeks,
Turkish warplanes have regularly bombed areas inside
Iraqi Kurdistan along the border with Turkey in an
attempt to flush out rebels from the Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) who have their bases in the
region.
The PKK uses the mountainous terrain of Iraqi
Kurdistan to launch attacks against Turkey.
Iraqi Kurdistan politician says, Turkey is using
Turkey's 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',www.ekurd.net
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. A
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas,www.ekurd.net
the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, granting them full
political freedoms.
AFP
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