Monday, 29 October 2007,
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AFP
Kurdistan region president called for direct talks with Turkey.
Iraqi Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani called for direct talks with Turkey to break the deadlock over the problem of Turkey's rebel fighters hiding out in northern Iraq.
"Let us sit down together to resolve the Kurdish question," he said during an interview with AFP in the Kurdistan regional capital of Erbil.
The call came as pressure mounted for Baghdad and Ankara to find a solution to the problem of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters launching assaults against Turkish positions from bases in Iraq's Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq'.
A high-level Iraqi delegation traveled to Ankara on Friday to try to dissuade Turkish leaders from launching an incursion but failed to satisfy their concerns.
Barzani said the regional Kurdish administration "should be consulted by the federal government.
Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq'
"I am not an enemy of Turkey, but I do not accept the language of force," said Barzani, the president of the region since 2005.
"Let us sit down together to resolve the Kurdish question," he said during an interview with AFP in the Kurdistan regional capital of Erbil.
The call came as pressure mounted for Baghdad and Ankara to find a solution to the problem of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters launching assaults against Turkish positions from bases in Iraq's Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq'.
A high-level Iraqi delegation traveled to Ankara on Friday to try to dissuade Turkish leaders from launching an incursion but failed to satisfy their concerns.
Barzani said the regional Kurdish administration "should be consulted by the federal government.
Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq'
"I am not an enemy of Turkey, but I do not accept the language of force," said Barzani, the president of the region since 2005.
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