Kurdistan will be first to be affected by conflict with Turkey – MP

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Kurdish parliament member Abdul Salam Berwari said today that “the Kurdish region shall be the first to be affected in the tensions remained between Iraq and Turkey,” pointing that more than 2000 Turkish companies are working in the region, which shall be affected accordingly. “Kurdistan is part of Iraq, neighboring Turkey, thus any tension between the two sides will surely affect the Kurdish region,” Berwari told IraqiNews.com. He called on Baghdad to pacify the tension with Turkey, and “every Iraqi should support the stand of the government and reject any foreign intervention in its internal affairs”. RM (TP)/SR 1348