Iraq informs Turkey on banning PKK (Maliki closes PKK offices!)

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Aug 12 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maleki has informed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the government decided to shut down all offices and halt activities of the Kurdish sepratist movement, the Workers Party of Kurdistan (the PKK).

Al-Maleki also discussed with Erdogan means of boosting bilateral relations between the two neighboring countries, according to a statement released by the premiership bureau.

The statement said the prime minister informed his counterpart about the government decision to close the offices of the PKK and ban all forms of its activities.

The PKK, that advocates a separate Trukish entity in southeastern Turkey, reportedly has bases in northern Iraq.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=895840

[azurnoir]

1. This could be bad

and before any spin starts, it should be noted the PKK is not a Islamic extremist group, although most of its members are Muslim. The PKK is exactly what the name implies it is the Kurdish people. The Kurds have no interest in the rest of Iraq other then Kurdistan. The Iraqi's however may well have reason to want Kurdistan as part of Iraq- it is a mountainous area that is far more temperate (snow in winter) and has far more water then the rest of Iraq add to the area also has oil in abundance and there is motive. In recent months as many 200,000 Iraqi's have fled to Kurdistan and by and large been welcomed by the Kurdish people. Some of the newly arrived Iraqi's however worked for Al-Qaida in Iraq and are now employed by the Kurdish government, there was a thread last night about one of those cases.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2452000
edited to add link

[Orrin_73]

2. Finally, thank god

PKK is a terrorist organization responsible for more then 30000 deads.