"Turkey slams U.S. failure to halt Kurds' designs on Kirkuk
Washington insists it wants to preserve Iraq's Unity
Ankara warns it will take action if attempts to take control plunge city into ethnic turmoil
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Turkey criticized the United States for failing to halt Kurdish efforts to dominate the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, and warned it could take action if attempts to take control plunges the city into ethnic turmoil.
'Some people are looking the other way while mass migration (of Kurds to Kirkuk) takes place,' the Wall Street Journal quoted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan as saying in an interview given on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos."
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