Sunday, December 30, 2007

Kurdish rebels in Iraq vow to carry out more attacks against Turkey if airstrikes continue - International Herald Tribune

"Kurdish rebels in Iraq vow to carry out more attacks against Turkey if airstrikes continue

QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq: A Kurdish rebel leader in northern Iraq vowed to take the group's battle for autonomy deep inside Turkey if its cross-border airstrikes do not stop.

In a recent interview in the isolated and rugged Qandil mountains in northern Iraq, rebels with the Kurdistan Workers' Party said they would lay down their weapons only if Ankara agreed to give Kurds equal rights, including the right to speak and teach their own language in Turkish schools."

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