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Northern Iraq - calm like a bomb
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 09, 2004 01:28pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, June 9, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As negotiations at the United Nations on a new resolution for Iraq apparently near a close, developments with respect to the Kurds and north Iraq, where there has been relative calm until now, are looking more and more ominous. Recently, the People's Congress of Kurdistan (the former Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK), announced an abrupt end to its five-year ceasefire with Turkish forces, warning that it would soon resort to violent means to achieve its ends.
Within a few days of the announcement, Kurdish forces in southern Turkey did attack Turkish forces, prompting a violent response. Additionally, according to a recent Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty report, "Kamis Djabrailov, chairman of the International Union of Kurdish Public Organizations that represents the Kurdish minorities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and other CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States], told Interfax on 31 May that his organization approves the announcement three days earlier by the People's Congress of Kurdistan that it will end on 1 June its five-year ceasefire in hostilities with the Turkish armed forces."
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