Iraq urges Turkey to resolve PKK issue politically

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Source: Reuters

Iraq urged its northern neighbour Turkey on Sunday to pursue diplomatic means as it attempts stop armed Kurdish separatists operating out of northern Iraq.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told reporters after meeting with a Turkish delegation in Baghdad that Iraq would not accept a breach of its sovereignty.

"We spoke about what are perceived to be security threats to Turkey coming from Iraqi territory. We emphasised the need of dealing with the perceived threats based on established channels between the governments of Iraq and Turkey," he said.

Turkish envoy Oguz Celikkol said a number of issues had been discussed, including Ankara's growing anger at recent violence it blames on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The Turkish rebel group has thousands of fighters in the mountains of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.

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[ck4829]

1. "Iraq would not accept a breach of its sovereignty"

Talk about irony right there.

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. SO TURKEY IS RETHINKING ITS SUPPORT OF THIS WAR?

gosh and golly... i guess when you let loose those pesky dogs of war... don't you just hate it when a war gets out-of-hand and then there is the nasty blood and all those bodies... dang it to heck.
it's just like those 'mericans (35%) who jumped from "gotta love that W" to "why are we in there" ... it wasn't that they suddenly discovered that "war is heck", it's that it wasn't as "easy" as they hoped for... damn wounded guys hanging around parking lots just to remind us that flying metal and such leaves wounded people. damn walter reed, not for the piss and rats, but for the photos. damn torture photos (torture is okay again, now that the weapons of photography have been outlawed), and stop those darn soldier bloggers for putting such an anti-war spin on something they shouldn't worry their pretty-little-heads about


ahhh.... where was i... and remember DON'T PROTEST ON MEMORIAL DAY because it is inconvenient and would remind all those people that there is an icky and ugly war-thing going on

---- vote for pleasantness in wartime

[WCGreen]

3. It was only a matter of time before the Kurds got in the way.....