Sunday, December 04, 2005

Turkish Daily News - Ankara looks to Iraqi polls

"Ankara looks to Iraqi polls
Sunday, December 4, 2005

Turkey in cautious rapprochement with Kurds

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

Turkey's decision to allow chartered flights by a private airline company to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq represents a change compared to the recent past, when Ankara and Iraqi Kurdish leaders were exchanging threats of declaring war and turning the streets of northern Iraq into graveyards for Turkish soldiers. However, despite the visible easing of tension, Ankara says the basic parameters of its broad �Iraq policy� remains unchanged."

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