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120 families escaped Kurdistan border
regions in Erbil because of Turkish shelling
18.12.2007
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December
18, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
A total of 120 families have left border villages to
Rawandaz town, northeast of Erbil,, the Iraqi
Kurdistan's capital due to the Turkish shelling of
regions of Qandil mountain, northeast of Iraq, to
hunt down elements of the Turkey's Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK), the governor of Erbil said on
Monday.
"Most of the families headed for Sulaimaniyah
regions, but some 120 families arrived to Rawandaz
region," Nawzad Hadi said.
"The Iraqi Red Crescent and the Erbil health
department provided the families with food and
medical assistance," said the governor, who visited
Rawandaz to follow-up the families' conditions.
"Kurdistan's presidency will discuss how to shelter
those families," he added.
"Residents of all border villages were forced to
leave the houses because of the Turkish pounding
while the 5-person wounded were rushed to Erbil
hospitals for treatment," he noted.
The Iraqi foreign ministry had summoned the Turkish
ambassador in Baghdad to hand him a memo of protest
against Turkish warplane pounding of some populous
Kurdish villages in the area of Qala Dize in the
Kurdistani province of Sulaimaniyah.
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.
Turkey says that it wages operations targeting what
is believed to be outposts of the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK), outlawed in Turkey, which Kurdish
fighters use to start attacks against the Turkish
state with the aim of establishing an independent
state for the Kurds.
The PKK has been fighting for self-rule in
southeastern Turkey since 1984, and more than 37,000
people have been killed on both sides since the
conflict broke out.www.ekurd.net
A large Turkey's Kurdish community
openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in 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.
The (PKK) KONGRA-GEL released an
official declaration
reiterating their desire for negotiations with the
Turkish government.
Qandil mountain lies between Qala Dize Yi, 131 km
northwestern Sulaimaniyah, and Hajj Omran, 185 km
northeast of Erbil.
Sulaimaniyah lies 364 km northeast of the Iraqi
capital Baghdad.
VOI
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