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Iraq's Kurdistan government reject
Baghdad's security deal with Turkey
27.9.2007
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September
27, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
The government of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region
will not accept any security agreement sealed by
Baghdad and Ankara without its consent, a Kurdish
official said on Thursday. Iraq's Minister of
Interior Jawad al-Bulani has
signed a security agreement in Ankara
that would allow Turkish troops to make incursions
into Kurdistan 'northern Iraqi' territories in
search for Kurdish PKK rebels operating from the
area.
The agreement is meant to allay Turkey's concerns
over its own armed Kurdish rebels from the PKK who
are still hiding out in northern Iraq.
"The question of the PKK is a political issue and it
should not be resolved by military means," Jamal
Abdallah, the spokesman for the Kurdistan autonomous
region, said.
Abdallah described any security agreement that aims
at ending the rebel activities in Kurdish areas in
Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq' as "useless".
He explained that it was difficult to control areas
on the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey
because of the geography of the region.
Turkish troops have tried many times to flush out
rebel activities and destroy their bases in northern
Iraq's rugged, mountainous areas but failed,
Abdallah said.
"Any military operation of Turkish troops against
PKK rebels would take place in the territories of
the province of Kurdistan, which is recognized in
the Iraqi constitution as a federal province with
its own sovereignty and particularity within Iraq,"
he said.
Thus, any security deal with Turkey should be
approved by the province's government, Abdallah
concluded.
Direct talks between Turkey and its own rebel group
is the only way to resolve the issue of their
presence in Kurdistan 'northern Iraq', Abdallah
said.
Iraq's virtually independent Kurdistan region is
causing unease in Ankara as this would have an
effect on the aspirations of its own restive Kurdish
minority.
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 Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq',
fearing this could fan separatism among its own
large Kurdish population in southeast Turkey. Turkey
is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds.
Since 1984 the 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.
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