Reply #16: Turkey to submit report to U.N. on north Iraq [View All]

Turkey to submit report to U.N. on north Iraq
Mon Jun 4, 2007 5:08AM EDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will deliver a report to the
United Nations this week spelling out its concerns about
militant Kurdish separatists in Iraq and reaffirming its
legal right to take action against them, an official said
on Monday.

The news comes as Turkey reinforces its troops along
the border with Iraq and the powerful army General
Staff stresses its readiness for a cross-border operation
to crush guerrillas of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK).

"Diplomacy first," said Monday's Sabah newspaper
headline, saying the U.N. move prepared the legal and
diplomatic ground for the possible military operation,
which has already sparked alarm in the United States,
Turkey's NATO ally.

The Foreign Ministry official told Reuters Turkey's
permanent U.N. representative, Baki Ilkin, would hold
talks with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this
week.

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