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Iraq's Kurdistan calls on Turkey, Iran to
stop artillery shelling
24.3.2008
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March 24, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', -- The
Turkish artillery renewed shelling on areas in the
Kurdistan border region with Turkey, while Iranian
artillery continues for the third day raiding
several villages on its border with Iraqi Kurdistan
amid deep concerns of safety for Iraqi Kurdish
citizens.
A source from Duhok province in the region said
Turkish artillery shelled border villages of Sbindar,
Bitkar, and Brorai Bala.
From time to time the Turkish military uses such
tactics justifying the action as trying to eliminate
the Kurdish rebels from the Turkey's Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK).
Meanwhile, the Iranian artillery has used its
shelling targeting towns like Marado, Razda and
Dolakoka and lasted for about two hours.
Kurdish officials said the shelling had targeted the
fighters of the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan or
PEJAK.
PJAK, an Iranian Kurdish
party (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan),www.ekurd.net
since
2004 PJAK took up arms for self-rule in Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran (Iranian Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK
are women.
The nearly 3,000 PJAK fighters then started their
armed struggle against the Iranian authorities, with
the aim of "building federalism for Iran's
Kurdistan."
Officials in the Kurdistan region expressed
condemnations in a press release Sunday for the
artillery shelling and called for an immediate halt.
Iraqi Kurdistan politician says, both Turkey and
Iran are using
Turkey's Kurdish separatist PKK rebel group (Kurdish
freedom fighters) and PJAK as an
excuse to invade Kurdistan region 'Iraq' to prevent
the establishment of Kurdistan state in the Kurdish
autonomous region in 'northern Iraq', Turkey and Iran fears
this could fan separatism among its own large
Kurdish population.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey. A
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise
with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas, the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, ranting them full
political freedoms.
Information for this report was provided by Kuna
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