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| Iraq |
| PKK warns against Turkish invasion |
| 2007-11-04 |
| In an interview with AP, Sozdar Avesta spokesman for the PKK says that his organization will retaliate against any Turkish military operation. "We are fighting for the liberation of the Kurdish people; we are fighting for our identity, language, our legitimate rights™ and self-determination,'' Avesta said. The Turkish government has threatened to send troops into Iraq to chase the insurgent fighters, after a series of deadly clashes between the PKK and Turkish military in Turkey in recent months. Avesta rejected the idea of laying down arms and seeking a political settlement with Turkey and said , "Working to obtain rights under dictatorships without resorting to arms is a difficult and impossible matter''. He defended the PKK's assaults on Turkish forces, saying Ankara had a history of ``detention and genocide campaigns against the Kurds. Thus the PKK took up arms to defend itself.'' The remarks came as officials from Iraq and the United States are meeting in Istanbul to try to stop cross-border attacks by PKK forces against military forces in Turkey's heavily-Kurdish southeast. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I support Kurds, but the PKK is out of friends. The sight of dead Turkish soldiers on TV, has solidified the hard line. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-11-04 03:00 |