Archive for March, 2011
Kurd-Turkmen talks top Turk PM Iraq agenda
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit Iraq and attempt to broker talks between ethnic Turkmen and Kurds over their rival claims to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a Turkmen politician said on Sunday.
“Turkey is pressuring us to narrow our differences with the Kurds” over Kirkuk, said Saadeddin Arkij, head of Iraq’s Turkmen Front, the largest political party representing the country’s Turkmen minority. Read the rest of this entry »