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Iraqi Kurdistan conference reaches out to
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February 26, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), February 26,
-- The culture minister of Iraq's autonomous
Kurdistan, Falak al-Din Kakai has announced that his
government is organising a conference "on
Kurdish-Turkish dialogue."
The objective of the conference "to be attended by
hundreds of intellectuals and politicians, both
Turkish and Kurdish, is to strengthen bilateral
relations and to create a basis for reciprocal
understanding on regional issues," Kakai said.
Kurdistan has repeatedly accused Turkey of
interference in Iraq's internal matters, in
particular the debate on the status of the oil rich
province of Kirkuk, which Iraqi Kurds want to
incorporate in their autonomous region, a move
opposed by ethnic Arabs and Turkmen who also live
there.
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan citing
international accords signed in 1926 and 1946
recently said that "Turkey has the right to
intervene in the legal issues of Iraq's future".
In 1926 Turkey and Britain agreed that in the event
of Iraq disintegrating, Turkish authorities would be
allowed to establish control in the area of Mosul -
around 90 square kilometres - to protect ethnic
Turkmen.
The 1926 treaty was ratified again in 1946.
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