"Ankara has difficulty accepting Kurdish reality
Ilnur Cevik
ilnurcevik@yahoo.com
09 May 2006
The Iraqi Kurds managed to forge a joint government and formally reunite their administrations at a special ceremony on Sunday. As usual Turkey snubbed the occasion by failing to send a representative or delegation to mark the occasion.
Instead, Iran, which is a neighbor to the Iraqi Kurds like Turkey, and which also fears Kurdish secessionist movements and thus questions Kurdish independence, made a point of sending its ambassador to Erbil to attend the parliamentary ceremony where the new Cabinet, led by Nechirvan Barzani, was sworn into office."
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