"Turkey imposes sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan in bid to halt PKK
By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil
Published: 02 November 2007
Turkey has started to impose economic sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan by stopping flights between Istanbul and the Kurdish capital, Arbil. The Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said yesterday that Turkey had closed its airspace 'not only to Kurdistan but also to Baghdad'."
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