Removal of PKK is Iraqi responsibility, Zebari

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zebari informed Turkey yesterday the Iraqi determination to remove the anti-Turkish PKK party from Iraqi territories. Turkish media organs reported that Zebari met Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Dawood Oghlu and informed him that the stay of PKK on Iraqi soil contravenes with the Iraqi constitution. “The prevention of terrorist activities is the responsibility of the Iraqi government”, Zebari added. He said that Iraq will not permit the PKK to poison its relations with Turkey. Oghlu stated that “if Iraq managed to control its territories, then there will be no need for border operations”. PKK, which figts Turkey since 1984, has some bases in Iraqi mountainous areas between the two countries. Turkey said that PKK is making its attacks from the Iraqi territories, which obliged the Turkish government to make its border attacks against Kurdistan bordering areas. Zebari will head to Istanbul to meet Premier Receb Taib Erdugan in an attempt to solve the bombing question on Iraqi northern borders, which led to several killings and immigration of citizens from these areas. RM (TI) 220