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Turkish artillery shells Iraqi Kurdistan
villages
3.6.2007
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June 3, 2007
Duhok, Kurdistan region (Iraq), Jun 3, --
Turkish artillery shelled Iraqi Kurdish villages
near the borders with Turkey with no reports of
casualties, a military source from the Kurdistan
region said on Sunday.
"Turkish artillery fired ten shells into the Iraqi
Kurdish villages of Nazdor and Keista on the borders
of Turkey late last night," the source, who asked
not to be named, said.
The source said, "so far we have not received
reports of casualties."
Meanwhile, residents from the villages of Kashan,
Spindar and Bitkar, inside the Iraqi Kurdistan
territories, said that their border villages came
under Turkish artillery shelling on Saturday
afternoon.
Mohammed Keisti, a local resident, said "the Turkish
shelling at the villages increases day by day,
particularly after Turkey increased its military
build up near the border with northern Iraq's
Kurdistan region."
VOI
** The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 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.
Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan ( Kurdistan-Turkey)
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