"TALABANI CONDEMNS PKK, CALLS ON TURKEY TO ENGAGE WITH KRG
By Gareth Jenkins
Monday, March 10, 2008
During his recent two-day recent visit to Ankara, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, pleased his hosts by condemning the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and inviting Turkish businesses to bid for Iraqi infrastructure projects. But he also defied Turkey’s reluctance to acknowledge the Kurdish political reality in northern Iraq by referring to the region as “Kurdistan” and calling on Ankara to engage directly with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Massoud Barzani."
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