| Iraq’s president has apologised to Turkey for recent Iraqi Kurdish threats to fan separatist unrest in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, the Turkish prime minister’s office said on Tuesday. President Jalal Talabani of Iraq telephoned Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan late on Monday to express “regret over the latest statements by Massud Barzani,” Erdogan’s spokesman, Mehmet Akif Beki, told AFP. Beki added that “Talabani underlined that they place great importance to ties with Turkey”. “Talabani said they were ready to fight against the PKK as part of a common plan with Ankara,” the spokesman added. |