"Kurdish rebels strain regional politics
07/07/2005 AFP
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, July 7 (AFP) - 10h40 - Turkey’s Kurds admire the self-rule their Iraqi cousins enjoy, but the safe haven accorded to Turkish Kurd rebels in northern Iraq fuels Ankara’s fears of Kurdish separatism and keeps the region under strain.
With the resurgence of violence in Turkey’s southeast by the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), based in neighboring Kurdish-held northern Iraq since 1999, Ankara believes the Iraqi Kurds are also accountable."
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