Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They
AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German
Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who
By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an
My Profile
Top News
Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day.
Subscribe
You are here:
Home
>
News
>
International
>
Article
Home
Business & Finance
News
U.S.
Politics
International
Technology
Entertainment
Sports
Lifestyle
Oddly Enough
Environment
Health
Science
Special Coverage
Video
Pictures
Your View
The Great Debate
Blogs
Weather
Reader Feedback
Do More With Reuters
RSS
Widgets
Mobile
Podcasts
Newsletters
Your View
Make Reuters My Homepage
Partner Services
CareerBuilder
Affiliate Network
Professional Products
Support (Customer Zone)
Reuters Media
Financial Products
About Thomson Reuters
Disarm or leave, Iraq's Talabani tells PKK
Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:21pm EDT
Email | Print |
Share
| Reprints | Single Page
[-]
Text
[+]
By Paul de Bendern
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, said on Monday the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Turkish separatist guerrilla group, must lay down its arms or quit Iraq.
Talabani's remarks were some of the toughest made recently by any Iraqi leader against the PKK, whose guerrillas have used northern Iraq as a base from which to launch attacks in Turkey, straining ties between Baghdad and Ankara.
"Either it lays down its arms or it leaves our territory," Talabani told a news conference alongside Turkey's visiting president, Abdullah Gul. He was speaking through an interpreter.
Gul, making the first visit to Iraq by a Turkish head of state in more than three decades, said the time had come "to end all these problems which hinder relations between Turkey and Iraq."
"A thorough operation must be carried out (against the PKK) and this is the responsibility of all of us," he said.
Turkey has accused Iraq in the past of not doing enough to crack down on the PKK, considered a terrorist organization by Washington and the European Union.
Turkey regularly shells PKK targets in Iraq. This month it killed at least four PKK guerrillas, who have been fighting for an independent Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey since 1984.
CONCILIATORY TONE
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Baghdad last year, a milestone in Iraq's efforts to end the regional isolation it had suffered since U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
In a rare sign of growing Turkish acceptance of Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region, Gul referred to the "Kurdistan regional administration" -- a phrase normally unusable among Turkish politicians mindful of reigniting Kurdish hopes of statehood on Turkish soil.
Turkey has long feared that a Kurdish state in Iraq would bolster calls for Kurdish independence in southeast Turkey.
Asked to clarify his remark, he told reporters traveling with him: "That's the term they use and it's in the Iraqi constitution."
A spokesman for the Kurdish Regional Government told Reuters Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani would meet Gul on Tuesday, and that security issues would be high on the agenda.
A PKK leader said Gul's visit changed nothing.
"For us in the PKK we don't have any fears from this visit, and we believe it will have no affect on us," said Haval Roze, a PKK leader. Continued...
View article on single page
Share:
Del.icio.us
Digg
Mixx
Yahoo!
Facebook
LinkedIn
Next Article:
Lebanon bomb kills senior Fatah official, 4 others
Also On Reuters
Reuters Summit: Global Hedge Fund And Private Equity
Video
Video: Oldest food coop in the U.S. grows in crisis
The world's cheapest car, the $2,000 Nano, to hit the roads
More International News
Iraq suicide bomber kills 25, wounds 45: police
FedEx plane crashes on landing in Tokyo, two dead
| Video
U.N. reports say Israel targeted civilians in Gaza
Lebanon bomb kills senior Fatah official, 4 others
| Video
U.S. wants Afghanistan exit strategy
More International News...
Editor's Choice
Slideshow
A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Slideshow
Most Popular on Reuters
Articles
Video
Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"
Obama met Gorbachev in run-up to Medvedev talks
Nobel laureate Krugman slams Geithner bailout plan
UPDATE 1-IMF says clean up banks to tackle dire world crisis
RPT-FEATURE-Global recession stalls skyscraper construction
U.S. woos investors to buy toxic assets | Video
The Nano, world's cheapest car, to hit Indian roads | Video
U.S. existing home sales rose in February
China's last eunuch spills sex secrets
FedEx plane crash lands, burns at Tokyo's Narita
Most Popular Articles RSS Feed
Video
Japan cargo plane crashes
Pope's condom stand challenged
Montana plane crash kills 17
Jade Goody dies in her sleep
Tributes pour in for Jade Goody
"Peoples' car" Nano launched
Talk of the Town: Jade Goody dies
Israel mall bomb stopped
AIG stays in the hotseat
Indian cricket forced offshore
Most Popular Videos RSS Feed
Your opinion matters
We want to hear from you Learn More
Take Reuters online survey
Reuters.com:
Help and Contact Us |
Advertise With Us |
Mobile |
Newsletters |
RSS |
Interactive TV |
Labs |
Reuters in Second Life |
Archive |
Site Index |
Video Index
Thomson Reuters Corporate:
Copyright |
Disclaimer |
Privacy |
Professional Products |
Professional Products Support |
About Thomson Reuters |
Careers
International Editions:
Africa |
Arabic |
Argentina |
Brazil |
Canada |
China |
France |
Germany |
India |
Italy |
Japan |
Latin America |
Mexico |
Russia |
Spain |
United Kingdom |
United States
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.