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Kurdistan's Position.


The Erbil-based Kurdistan Regional Government The introduction to this article may be too long. Please help improve the introduction by moving some material from it into the body of the article according to the suggestions at  (KRG KRG Kurdistan Regional Government
KRG Key Resource Group (Los Angeles, California)
KRG Killology Research Group
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) - controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party Kurdistan Democratic Party may refer to:
  • Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq, an Iraqi Kurdish political party
  • Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, an Iranian Kurdish political party
  • Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria, a Syrian Kurdish political party
 (KDP) of Ma'soud Barzani, who is president of Kurdistan, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (est. 1975) (Kurdish: Yekîtî Nîştimanî Kurdistan) is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. Mission
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan claims to be working for self-determination, human rights, democracy and peace
 (PUK) of Jalal Talabani, who is president of Iraq The President of Iraq is Iraq's head of state.
Republic of Iraq (1958-2003)
For most of the country's history, Iraq's presidents have been authoritarian dictators occupying an office without a clearly designed constitutional structure.
 - has been resisting repeated requests by Ankara for the Baghdad government to work on evicting the PKK from northern Iraq. It says Ankara must first recognise the KRG before the local government takes action against the PKK.

Gulf News on Oct. 16 quoted KRG Minister Muhammad Ehsan as saying: "The government of Kurdistan firmly opposes [Ankara's demand for] sending Iraqi forces from Baghdad to borders with Turkey as the Turkish government wants. This is an internal issue and concerning the sovereignty of Iraq, and only the Iraqi government and its Kurdish regional counterpart will handle it". Gulf News quoted "sources in the Iraqi army as saying a recent meeting between Iraqi Defence Minister Abdul-Qader Muhammad Jasem and the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad focused on Ankara's request of sending Iraqi troops to the border to take the place of to be substituted for.
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See also: Place
 Kurdish Peshmerga Noun 1. peshmerga - a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state
Kurd - a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state
 elements accused by Ankara of sympathising with the PKK.

Ehsan said the government in Erbil supported proposals for talks between Turkey and the PKK leadership, adding: "Dialogue is the right way to solve the PKK problem and not by using excessive military power". Ehsan said Ankara had informed the US and Baghdad it would not accept any representatives of the KRG to attend Turkish-Iraqi talks.

Gulf News quoted Aaron Kamiran, an Iraqi political analyst, as saying: "I believe the goal of the Turkish government is to escalate the situation on the Iraqi border under the pretext of eliminating the hostile activities by PKK elements. The goal is political because launching a Turkish military operation in the region would not achieve any results because of the difficult and mountainous terrain. Hence the Turks want to send Iraqi and non-Kurdish troops to the border and they will raise problems between Erbil and Baghdad, especially with Erbil's insistence on rejecting the Turkish proposal. What is important for Turks is to make sure that Iraqi Kurdistan...will not be an independent entity or a confederate state in the future. Besides, the non-Kurdish forces in the region may pose a guarantee for Turkey in this region, especially since normalization... in Kirkuk is implemented hastily".
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Publication:APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East
Geographic Code:7IRAQ
Date:Oct 22, 2007
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