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| US to PKK: Disarm, get pardoned |
| 2009-03-16 |
| The US administration will urge PKK insurgents to put down their weapons as a way to end the current conflict between the militants and Turkey. The US will also ask the Turkish government to pardon the former Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, Turkey's Aksam newspaper declared in a report on Sunday. The report further said that Washington's new approach to the PKK-Turkey conflict would be the main focus of a conference due to be held in Iraq's Erbil in April. The newspaper quoted Iraqi and Turkish diplomats as saying that the conference is considered to be quite important to the US administration. The report says that the conference, which is supported by the US, will bring together top Kurdish leaders from Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Europe. Turkey's special envoy to Iraq, Murat Ozcelik, has also declared that he had talks with the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, and the leader of the regional Kurdish government in Iraq, Massoud Barzani, and they have assured him that the result of the conference will not be disappointing for Turkey. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Put down your weapons, get pardoned, pick them up on your way out. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-16 13:30 |
| #1 It would be funny if not so sad. |
| Posted by: Gluting Fillmore6653 2009-03-16 00:39 |