Iraqi PM to discuss security, Kurdish guerrillas with Turkish leaders

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Media: The Associated Press
Byline: n/a
Date: 16 October 2006

ANKARA, Turkey - Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday was to meet
with Turkish leaders to discuss the deteriorating security situation in his
country and how to act against Iraq-based Turkish Kurdish guerrillas in
coordination with the United States.

Turkey is worried that increasing sectarian clashes are pulling the country
toward a civil war that could break Iraq apart and lead to the emergence of
an independent Kurdish state on its border.

Turkey fears that such a development could encourage separatist Kurds in
Turkey and is strongly urging Iraq and the United States to root out Turkish
Kurdish guerrillas, who have been waging hit-and-run attacks from Iraq for
autonomy in Turkey's southeast since 1984.

Al-Maliki was scheduled to meet with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan and Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
 
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