"IRAQI DIPLOMACY LIKELY TO FORESTALL TURKISH INCURSION
By David Romano
Thursday, August 9, 2007
On Tuesday, August 7, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU) between Iraq and Turkey. The memorandum does not commit Baghdad to take many of the concrete actions against the Iraq-based Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces that Turkey wanted (Today’s Zaman, August 8). Prior to Maliki’s visit, Ankara hoped to receive a commitment from Baghdad to arrest PKK leaders in Iraq, close down PKK front organizations in Iraq, and cut off the PKK’s funding and logistics sources, among other concrete measures (Radikal, August 8; also see EDM, August 8)."
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