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Joseph Ralston to meet Kurdistan President
one more time on PKK
2.2.2007
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Turkish General Buyukanit and
US appointee Ralston meet yesterday on PKK
February 2, 2007
The US special appointed representive to the
struggle against the Kurdish rebels PKK, retired
General Joseph Ralston, met yesterday with General
Yasar Buyukanit, the commanding general of the
Turkish Armed Forces.
The two men reportedly spoke largely about the US
forces' actions against the PKK presence in northern
Iraq, with General Buyukanit reserving criticism for
insufficient US precautions taken thus far. |
Massoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan Region
(Iraq) (L),
U.S Retired Gen. Joseph Ralston (R) |
Buyukanit also reportedly told Ralston that the US
plan to leave Iraqi border security to Iraqi
security forces would not be acceptable.
General Ralston left Ankara yesterday, and is
expected to meet with Kurdistan President Massoud
Barzani one more time in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq).
PKK Kurdish separatist guerrillas operating out
of northern Iraq, Ankara is weighing up a
cross-border incursion to attack PKK bases.
More than 30,000 Turkish soldiers and PKK guerrillas
have been killed since 1984 when the PKK took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
PKK, blacklisted by Turkey, the United States and
the European Union.
Turkey is home to some 20 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the PKK, Kurds
demands for independence for the southeastern and
heavily Kurdish Anatolia region
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by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan"
Southeast Turkey. The Kurds have no rights in
Turkey.
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
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