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» Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki |
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki
Erdogan told the CNN Turk news channel that he was awaiting a response to a letter he sent recently to Maliki proposing talks by the end of June.Ankara is also in contact with Washington on the issue, he said.
"This is a diplomacy offensive. The result of this diplomacy offensive could shape certain things," he said.The Turkish army has called for a cross-border operation to destroy bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in neighboring northern Iraq.
Erdogan stressed Tuesday that military action should be the last resort, saying that Ankara would seek dialogue with Baghdad and focus on fighting the PKK inside Turkey.He told CNN Turk the government had not ruled out an eventual incursion into northern Iraq."If necessary, parliament can take a decision (to authorize military action) so that we can have it at hand... But we have to come to that point first," he said.The army has charged that Iraqi Kurds, who run northern Iraq, tolerate and even support the rebels.Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul Thursday accused the Iraqi authorities of making "no effort at all" against the PKK, which he said, has between 3,500 and 3,800 militants based in northern Iraq.
Anti-PKK operations in Turkey last year resulted in the seizure of two tons of plastic explosives originating from Iraq, he said.The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, has notably stepped up attacks in Turkey this year.Public anger boiled over in May when a suspected PKK militant blew himself up in a busy shopping center in Ankara, killing seven people.The Turkish army has launched a large-scale crackdown against the PKK in Turkey's east and southeast and massed troops on the border with Iraq.
The PKK took up arms for self-rule in the Kurdish-majority region in 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.
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Four people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a car bomb attack in Diyarbakir
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