"Last-minute Iraq warning: Turkey won't remain indifferent to suffering of Turkmens
Monday, January 31, 2005
YUSUF KANLI
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
Foreign Minister Abdullah G�l said Turkey has no territorial designs on Iraq but that it cannot remain indifferent to the sufferings of the Turkmens should an altered demographic composition of Kirkuk trigger an ethnic clash.
In an exclusive interview with the Turkish Daily News, Foreign Minister G�l stressed that Turkey was not threatening an intervention but that everyone should bear in mind that the government of any democratic country must take into consideration the sentiments and sensitivities of its public. "
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