Authorities of Iraq have closed headquarters of Kurdistan Workers’ Party
The government of Iraq has suspended work of headquarters of Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party, presumably connected with Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
As Associated Press informs, it has been made under the request of Turkish government, where Kurdish Democratic Party is being considered as a political wing of Turkish Kurds-separatists. Nobody from Kurdistan Workers’ Party members has been arrested.
Today Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has declared that strict measures against bases of Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq, down to closing branches of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have been taken. at conference on safety problems of Iraq, which is being held in Istanbul, Nuri al-Maliki has told that they are seriously working on this question.
Representatives of Turkey have concerned to the application of the Iraq prime-minister with skepticism: official Ankara has warned, that if Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s bases in the north of Iraq will continue to function, and leaders of Kurdish movement will remain free, armed forces of Turkey will start retaliatory expedition against Kurds in territory of Iraq.
Some days ago Turkish armies have killed 15 Kurdish insurgents from Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
USA can provide some stability - on the eve US state Secretary Condoleeza Rice has declared, that the USA, Turkey and Iraq will struggle against Kurdish insurgents, having emphasized, that the main task - is not to worsen the situation.
- Turks cut Iraq
- Iraq will stop oil delivery to Turkey
- Turkey has started full-scale intrusion into Iraq
- Bush: Kurdish insurgents are the enemies of the USA
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