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KDP representative in Turkey Kadir Eziz says PKK
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Kadir
Eziz said that the recent agreement signed by the
Iraqi premier committing to counter the PKK during
his visit to Ankara did not bind them.
August
13, 2007
ISTANBUL,-- The representative of Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) leads by Iraqi Kurdistan
region president Messoud Barzani in Turkey on Sunday
said that they did not recognise the PKK as a
terrorist organisation.
Kadir Eziz, the representative in Turkey for
Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), said
Iraqi Kurds would not enter into a conflict with the
PKK, despite Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki last week
giving a commitment to eradicate the group from
Kurdistam (northern Iraq), where it has bases.
Maliki’s government was facing collapse and he was
not in a position to met Turkey’s requests, Eziz
said.
Also on Sunday, the KDP’s and the Kurdistan
Administration’s minister responsible for Peshmerge
(Kurdistan national foreces) affairs, Sheih Cafer
Sheih Mustafa, said that they did not believe that
the PKK could be blocked by applying military power.
The problem was a political one and thus that the
answer was a political one as well, he said.
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** Ankara is anxious to prevent the emergence of a
Kurdish state in Kurdistan region (northern Iraq),
fearing this could fan separatism among its own
large Kurdish population in southeast Turkey.
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).
**
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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