'Peace messengers' delegation crosses Kurdistan to Turkey.DUHUK / Aswat al-Iraq: The 'peace messengers' delegation crossed Iraq's Kurdistan Kurdistan: see under Kurds. Kurdistan Broad designation given to a mountainous region that includes parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, and Syria, inhabited predominantly by Kurds. region into Turkish territories on Monday, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the official of the security center at the Ibrahim al-Khalil compound said."A total of 28 persons representing the 'peace messengers' delegation entered the Turkish territories and returned to their house," Abdulwahab Mohammad told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.A source from a pro-PKK party had said that the delegation will head for Turkey to convey a message to the government in Ankara to express their support to its initiative toward Kurds.A Turkish government advisor, Ibrahim Kalin, said it is an important step.The government has been working on a Kurdish initiative that is expected to give greater freedoms to Turkey's large Kurdish minority, including language rights by which Kurdish may be taught in public universities.The reform process is seen as vital to boosting Turkey's European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community membership application and ending a 25-year conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers Party Noun 1. Kurdistan Workers Party - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK (PKK PKK Player-Killer Killer (multiplayer gaming) PKK Partiya Karker Kurdistan (Kurdistan Worker's Party) PKK Kudistan Isci Partisi (formerly Kurdistan Workers Party, now KADEK) ) , which has killed more than 40,000 people. It is unlikely to be a success without political consensus.Turkey's estimated 12 million Kurds, of a population of 72 million, have long complained of discrimination by the state.Turkey has been fighting the PKK since 1984 when it took up arms to carve out to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. - Shak. See also: Carve a homeland in southeastern Turkey.SH (S)/SR Copyright 2009 Aswat al-Iraq Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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