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Kurdistan Government, MNF responsible for
Turkish incursions
9.10.2008
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October 9, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region "Iraq", —
A media advisor from the Kurdistan's regional
parliament on Wednesday said that the Iraqi
government and the coalition forces will be "morally
responsible" for any possible Turkish military
incursion into Kurdistan region's territories.
"The Turkish parliament may extend the authorization
offered to Turkish forces in this regard for an
additional year," Tareq Johar told VOI.
"Kurdistan's parliament will have a specific stance
in case the authorization is extended," He said.
In the worst single attack on the military in a
year,www.ekurd.net
gunmen of the Turkey's
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Friday, October 3rd
2008, raided a military outpost in a region in
southeast Turkey bordering Iraqi Kurdistan region.
Twenty soldiers were wounded and two more are still
missing.
The Turkish chief of staffs said the attack was
helped with heavy weapons from northern Iraq
(Kurdistan region). Iraqi and Kurdish
authorities in Kurdistan region strongly reject the
claim.
Chief of Kurdistan's presidential office Fuad
Hussein said his regional government did not provide
help to PKK fighters,www.ekurd.net
stressing the regional
government condemned the attack.
Turkey's parliament
Wednesday extended
the government's mandate to order strikes against
Turkey's Kurdish PKK rebels in Kurdistan
region "northern Iraq" as an
attack on a Turkish
police bus in the country's Kurdish southeast killed five people.
The assault came just days after rebels from the
Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed 17
soldiers in a daytime attack on a military outpost
near the border with Iraq.
Turkey has never, and still does not, recognize the
Kurdistan region government (KRG) and refuses to
meet with its representatives in any official
capacity. That reflects Ankara's fear that any
international respect shown to the autonomous Iraqi
Kurdistan region would only embolden Turkey's own
large Kurdish minority to seek similar home-rule
status.
Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan regional
government that holds sway in northern Iraq,
regretted Ankara's refusal to hold direct talks on
the crisis over the Turkey's separatist Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) rebels.
In earlier statement by Iraqi Kurdistan forces chief
Brig. Gen. Jabbar Yawar, an undersecretary for the
ministry governing Kurdistan protection forces known
as Peshmerga, said "Turkey wants imaginary and
impossible demands. They want us to kill all PKK for
them while they themselves cannot do that," he said.
Iraqi Kurds says previously we saw the Turkish army
invading the region under the pretext of chasing the
PKK and this army did nothing.
Over 39,000 Turkish soldiers and Kurdish PKK
guerrillas have been killed since 1984 when the
Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast of Turkey (Turkey-Kurdistan). 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.
The PKK is considered a 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara, U.S., the PKK continues to be on the
blacklist list in EU despite court ruling which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel
group PKK and its political wing on
the European Union's terror list.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish politicians
say the measures fall short of their expectations.
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