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Reuters AlertNet - Iraqi president criticises PM for Turkey visit

"Iraqi president criticises PM for Turkey visit
28 Feb 2006 14:04:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Iraq's President Jalal Talabani criticised interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari for making a solo visit to Turkey on Tuesday without consulting other members of the government.

Talabani, who is a Kurd from the north, presides over Iraq's fractious political system, which includes a parliament riven by religious and ethnic divisions. Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria long for an independent state of their own and consider Turkish treatment of Kurds to be oppressive."

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