Double threat to Kurds in Iraq

THE armies of Turkey and Iran are massing troops along the Iraqi-Kurdish borders, threatening to invade the only relatively peaceful area of Iraq.

Double threat to Kurds in Iraq
Wed, 08 Aug, 2007 - 01:00
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Their stated reason for such operations is to attack the mountain strongholds of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party).

These pro-Kurdish guerrilla armies enjoy widespread popular support throughout the Kurdish regions of south-east Turkey, northern Iraq, north-east Syria and north-east Iran, the Kurdish heartlands, as well as throughout the Kurdish diaspora in Europe.

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