Iraq, Turkey Look to End Kurdish Clashes

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Iraq, Turkey Look to End Kurdish Clashes

Posted on Mar 7, 2008

A week after Turkey withdrew troops from northern Iraq, claiming its military initiative against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was successfully completed, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met with Turkish President Abdullah Gul to try to figure out how regional tensions might be contained in the future.

BBC:
“We have requested that the Kurdish administration puts pressure on PKK units to give up their weapons or leave the region,” Mr Talabani said, referring to Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region.

His visit is being seen as ground-breaking in Turkey, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford reports.

The previous Turkish president refused to invite President Talabani, who is Kurdish, because of Turkey’s suspicions Iraqi Kurds were supporting the PKK

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By Ahab, March 8, 2008 at 10:05 pm Link to this comment
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To criticize the Turks for defending their national border and cheer on the Hebrews for expanding theirs on the land of the other indigenous people you forgot to mention. The only distinctions the Kurds have, they share with many other indigenous people is that they did not show up by boatloads to occupy and settle someone elses land and by contrast majority of Hebrews do not even live in the said Hebrew mother land and are perfectly happy where ever it is they call home.

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By Blackspeare, March 8, 2008 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment

Of all the indigenous people in the world today, the Kurds have the distinction of having inhabited the same land for the longest period time and not have a state of their own——even longer than the Hebrews.

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