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Kurdistan Alliance asked Ankara to respect
Iraq's sovereignty
24.7.2007
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July
24, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq, -- Kurdistan alliance
bloc in Iraqi parliament on Monday called Turkey to
respect Iraq’s sovereignty after Ankara has been
threatening to carry out a military operation if the
triple committee conversations can’t solve the
problem.
"Turkey should respect Iraq as a sovereign country
having a democracy and respect Iraqi citizens will",
said Abdul Bari Zebari, the Kurdistan Alliance
representative in Iraqi parliament.
Meanwhile Iraqi government delivered two protest
memos to Turkish government. The first was about
sending expired foods and medicines and the second
was about
shelling Kurdistan Region
by Turkish army.
Iraqi government stated its will to negotiate with
United States and Turkey about the PKK issue.
Iraq's Kurdistan region
welcomed the results
of the Turkish elections,
Adnan al-Mufti, the Speaker of Kurdistan Region
Parliament, "We hope that these results will be a
step forward in Turkey ’s progress and in the
building of its prosperous future and also for
establishing the best of relations between Federal
Iraq and Turkey.”
Officially, Turkey does not recognise the regional
government of Kurdistan led by president Massoud
Barzani.
Kurdish politician says, Turkey is using a 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). Ankara is anxious to prevent the
emergence of a Kurdish state in (northern Iraq),
fearing this could fan separatism among its own
large Kurdish population in southeast Turkey .
More than 37,000 Turkish soldiers and Kurdish 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.
PUKmedia com | Agencies
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