Iraqi Kurds on Tuesday blamed the Turkish military for the failure of talks between Baghdad and Ankara over Kurdish rebels and urged fresh dialogue to end their uprising. Kamel Shaker, a top Iraqi Kurdish leader, said the talks collapsed because of a tough Turkish military stance. “The failure of the meeting in Ankara was due to the intransigent attitude of the Turkish military which believes that if it meets with representatives of Kurdistan, they would lose face,” he said. Shaker, a hardline communist leader, said the Turkish military refused to acknowledge the two Kurdish members of the Baghdad delegation, Sifin Dezaie and Imad Ahmed, during the talks. “The military is adamant in its view,” he told AFP at his office in Arbil, the capital of the autonomus Kurdish government of northern Iraq. “They do not want to meet with the representatives of Kurdistan, or have a dialogue with president Massud Barzani. They do not want Kurdistan.”