"Ankara downplays Galbraith’s assertion on ‘independent Kurdistan’
Thursday, August 24, 2006
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
The Turkish capital has dismissed the comments made by a top U.S. adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leaders regarding Turkey and the �reality� of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq.
Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Zagreb, said in an address to the Middle East Institute on Monday that the Kurdish entity in northern Iraq has already become a de facto independent state, only lacking a seat at the United Nations, and that winning formal independence was just a matter of time."
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