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Kurdistan Official: We used the language
of self-defense not the language of threatening
10.4.2007 |
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April
10, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- An Iraqi
Kurdish official said on Monday, Kurdish people were
seeking to have one-to-one dialogue with Turkish
leaders to ponder over unsettled disputes between
both sides.
Fouad Hussein, of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
Presidency, said in news remarks that Kurdish
leaders had extended their hands to political
leaders in Turkey, and there were several efforts to
sit and negotiate with them, but, unfortunately,
Ankara used to respond in the negative.
"If a clear-cut invitation is extended to any
official in Kurdistan (for a meeting), with an
unequivocal and articulate agenda, then the response
will be in the positive. Relevant efforts were
exerted, and a date was set for a meeting with Mr.
Prime Minister of Kurdistan with Turkish officials.
But, regrettably, the meeting was canceled at the
last moment," he said.
However, he affirmed that Kurdish leaders did not
support Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) elements. "We
have repeatedly said that we do not poke our noses
into the affairs of neither Turkey nor Iran, neither
do we back violence or PKK elements on the border
between Turkey and Iraq or the border between Turkey
and Iran."
"Kurdish people do not use the language of
threatening against anybody in our political
dictionary. Instead, we used to adopt the language
of self-defense to defend our land and Kurdistani
society.
But, at the same time, we can not allow others to
use the language of threatening against the Iraqi
people or Kurdistan's people." Earlier on Monday,
Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned
Iraqi Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani of the
consequences of his recent remarks on Turkey's
policy in north Iraq.
In a televised interview late last week,
Barzani cautioned
that had Turkey advanced into Kurdistan (north
Iraq), where Kurdish majority lives, Iraq's Kurdish
people would have entered southeast Turkey, where
Kurdish majority lives.
"We will not let the Turks intervene in Kirkuk,"
Barzani said in an interview with Al-Arabiyah
television. "Kirkuk is an Iraqi city with a Kurdish
identity, historically and geographically. All the
facts prove that Kirkuk is part of Kurdistan."
"Turkey is not allowed to intervene in the Kirkuk
issue and if it does, we will interfere in
Diyarbakir's issues and other cities in Turkey,"
Barzani said. Diyarbakir is the largest city in
Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast.
"There are 30 million Kurds in Turkey and we don't
interfere there. If they (the Turks) interfere in
Kirkuk over just thousands of Turkmen then we will
take action for the 30 million Kurds in Turkey."
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