Kurdistan Situation Worsens


	Kurdistan Situation Worsens

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10-19-2007 3:25 AM

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Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq, as the Iraqi government warned
against a Turkish invasion of the oil-rich region.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=af_AlPyxsQ3Q&refer=canada"><P> A Turkish attack on PKK units in Iraq would disrupt oil
shipments and have an impact on regional security, Iraq's Foreign
Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in a telephone interview from
Baghdad.    
        </p> <P> Undermine Confidence    
        </p> <P> An incursion would undermine the ``atmosphere of
confidence'' between the two countries, and ``definitely all
trade and other things will stop,'' Zebari said. That would
include oil exports, ``though Iraq is desperately in need of oil
revenue,'' he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=af_AlPyxsQ3Q&refer=canada"> Thousands of people marched in northern Iraq to protest
Turkish threats to send in troops, Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani's political party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,
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application, urged the Turkish government to resolve its Kurdish
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