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Turkish artillery shell Iraqi Kurdistan
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26.8.2007
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August
26, 2007
Duhok, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Turkish
artillery anew shelled areas inside Iraqi Kurdistan
region territories (northern Iraq) with no reports
of casualties, an official source from the Kurdistan
Democratic Party said on Saturday.
"Nearly 25 artillery shells fell near villages of
Kashan, Afiyliyah, and Ghali Basaqa of Zakho
district and villages of Karah, Spindar and Baloka
of al-Imadiyah district on Friday evening," the
source, who declined to be named, said.
Local residents from the bombed areas said that
Turkish artillery shelling left no casualties.
Zakho, in Kurdistan region, about 510 km north of
Baghdad, is located near to the Iraqi Kurdistan
borders with Turkey, while al-Imadiyah district lies
to the east of Zakho near the Turkish borders.
The Kurdistani (northern Iraqi) borders have been a
scene of tension and repeated Turkish artillery
shelling. Turkey says its forces are hunting for the
banned Turkish Kurdish Workers' party (PKK) fighters
hiding in the border areas inside Iraq's Kurdistan.
Since 1984 PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey. Turkey
is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds.
Kurdistani 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).
VOI
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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.
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.
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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