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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Iraq will not be sanctuary for Turkey's Kurdish separatists: Maliki

"Iraq will not be sanctuary for Turkey's Kurdish separatists: Maliki

ANKARA (AFP) -- Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki reportedly assured Turkish leaders that his country will not be a sanctuary for Kurdish separatist rebels from Turkey.

'We will not allow Iraq to serve as a base for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party),' Maliki told Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a telephone conversation, according to an Erdogan advisor cited by the Anatolia news agency."

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