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Turkey skeptical of Iraqi vows to stop PKK |
Turkey said on Saturday that two days of meetings with officials from Iraq and the United States on how to stop PKK militants who attack Turkey from northern Iraq had produced no new proposals.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, and the premier of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, at a conference in İstanbul, in a bid to ease tensions between Iraq and Turkey over the militants of the PKK. Iraq pledged it would enact measures to stop the militants. On Saturday afternoon, offices of a political party affiliated with the PKK were shut in at least two northern Iraqi cities. But Turkish officials said the measures had been offered before. “It has been a meeting with no resolution,” a Foreign Ministry official said after the conference. “There have been no tangible steps offered to us. “Iraqi officials said that they were setting up checkpoints in northern Iraq and that PKK militants would be arrested if stopped.
[The New York Times] |
