Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan asked his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein today, Sunday, that Baghdad designate the Kurdish PKK organization as a terrorist organization. Last year, under pressure from Turkey, Iraq outlawed the PKK in the country, but did not designate it a terrorist organization. Members of the PKK, which has been waging armed action against Turkey for more than 40 years, have found refuge in northern Iraq, where the Turkish armed forces are constantly conducting military operations. Fidan’s visit to Baghdad came in the wake of the Jan. 24 killing of two Iraqi border guards in Dohuk, near the border with Turkey. Ankara blames the attack on the PKK. “It is clear that the PKK terrorist organization poses a common threat to the national security of both Turkey and Iraq and that it violates Iraq’s sovereignty. This latest attack has once again revealed the true face of the terrorist organization,” he said […]
Source: News Beast
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