Mam Rostam, an official responsible for security affairs in Iraq, told the PKK that they should understand that resorting to armed violence will bring them no results. “Kurds cannot win liberty through killing Turkish and Iranian soldiers. The PKK’s armed attacks do not only endanger the security of Kurds living in Turkey but also the Kurds living in Iraq,” he said.
Rostam’s remarks came yesterday after threatening statements from PKK officials who have been disturbed by the prospect of the establishment of a three-way command mechanism between Turkey, the US and Iraq to fight against the PKK.
Speaking to newspapers and magazines published in northern Iraq, PKK spokesman Ahmet Deniz said: “It is unacceptable that it is a Kurd, [Iraqi Foreign Minister] Hoshyar Zebari, who suggested the establishment of an intelligence center against the PKK in Arbil. Iraqi Kurds who are collaborating with Turkey against the PKK to eliminate the PKK are betraying their cause.
The Iraqi Kurdish leaders [Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and northern Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani] should reveal what they got in exchange for selling the PKK to Turkey.”
In the meantime, Iraqi Shiites who gathered under the leadership of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim decided that Kurdish parties in Iraq do not have good intentions and are aiming to divide Iraq. In this regard, they decided to refer to the north of Iraq as “northern Iraq” rather than “Kurdistan.”
