"Turkey's Kirkuk anxiety
Thursday, January 27, 2005
TDN Editorial by Yusuf KANLI
YUSUF KANLI
It's no secret that the Turkish government and its military command are very much concerned with the efforts of northern Iraqi Kurdish parties to change the demographic composition of Kirkuk.
Gen. Ilker Basbug, deputy chief of the Turkish General Staff, pointed out at a press briefing that was televised live for the first time that although Turkey has no precise figure on the number of Kurds settled in the area by Kurdish political parties, the recent migration of a large number of Kurds into the oil-rich northern Iraqi city has substantively changed the demographic composition of the area and created a very explosive situation. "
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