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Barzani’s Kurdish Policies Raise Questions in Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Barzani’s Kurdish Policies Raise Questions in Turkey

For some time now, Turkey has been maintaining good relations with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Northern Iraq, Massoud Barzani. The Turkish Foreign Ministry and its National Intelligence Organization (MIT) are trying to work with Barzani in order to prevent infiltration of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) elements from northern Iraq into Turkey, to disrupt the PKK’s logistics and even encourage them to disarm.

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