Iraqi diplomat: “Turkey’s security is Iraq’s security”

TURKEY-COUNTER-TERRORISM – Iraqi diplomat says Turkish cross-border crackdown on PKK fine by Baghdad

Iraqi ambassador in Ankara has said the Baghdad government would sanction a cross-border operation by the Turkish ground forces to hunt down PKK terrorists in Iraq’s north, which the terrorist organization uses as a launchpad to attack targets inside Turkey.

“This is not an easy question to answer but as you know everything between the two countries must happen in line with the agreements we signed earlier. If it is by the book, anything is fine by us. Turkey’s security is Iraq’s security,” Abdul Amir Kamil Abi-Tabikh told reporters Wednesday in a meeting with Mustafa Kamalak, chairman of Felicity Party. Turkey last entered into northern Iraq in February 2008 to crush PKK with as many as 10 thousand troops backed by warplanes and artillery.(İMB-MS)

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24 Aug 2011