"PKK to top gov't agenda
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Turkey’s former ambassador to Washington and chairman of the Euroasian Strategic Research Center, Faruk Loğoğlu, commented at a panel in Istanbul’s Yeditepe University yesterday on foreign policy issues that the new government will face. According to Loğoğlu, the PKK’s presence in northern Iraq will remain a hot issue and continue to challenge the next AKP cabinet. Turkey will further face pressure from the EU on the Cyprus issue particularly within NATO, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. Talking on the same issue, former US ambassador to Turkey, Morton Abramowitz on the other hand also qualified the PKK threat emanating from northern Iraq as one top problem facing the U.S.-Turkish relationship in the aftermath of Turkey's general elections last weekend. According to Abramowitz, who is now a senior fellow at the U.S. think tank Century Foundation, Turkey should now decide how to deal with Iraqi Kurds and more importantly, review its policies about its own Kurdish problem."
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