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Kurdistan calls for end to Iranian bombing
20.6.2008
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June
20, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region "Iraq", —
Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister
Nechirvan Barzani Thursday called on Iran to halt
military bombardments on targets in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Barzani issued a direct appeal to Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to order Iranian
military forces to cease operations targeting
members of the Kurdish Iranian Party for a Free Life
in Kurdistan,www.ekurd.net
PJAK, and the Turkey's Kurdistan
Workers' Party, PKK, in villages along the Iranian
border with Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The prime minister said his government sought warm
relations with Iraq's neighbors and opposed any
attempt to use Kurdish territory as a staging ground
to attack Iran, al-Sumaria reported Thursday.
Meanwhile, Turkish forces used advanced Cobra
fighter jets to target Kurdish PKK separatists
operating in southeastern Turkey, killing three PKK
rebels. |
Nechirvan Barzani, Prime
Minister of
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) |
PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), since
2004 PJAK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran (Iranian Kurdistan, Eastern Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK
are women.
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.
The Iranian Press TV reported PKK rebels also killed
three Iranian police officers on patrol near the
northwest border of Iraq.
Press TV said the PKK operates in Kurdistan region
"northern Iraq" with weapons provided by the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency and collaborates with
the PJAK to launch attacks on western Iran and
southern Turkey.
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. 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.
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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