Kurdish Leader Says Kurdish Guerrilla Left Southern Kurdistan
Associated Press
November 30, 2007
KOI-SANJAQ, (Southern Kurdistan) (AP) - There's word that Kurdish guerrilla
fighting for autonomy from Turkey have left Iraqi Kurdistan and returned to
their homeland in the past two weeks.
The brother of a guerrilla leader says members of the group known as PKK have
been replaced by Iran-based guerrllia.
He said the Kurdish guerrilla were leaving "to ease the burden" on the Kurdistan
regional government, which is under pressure from its U.S. supporters, Iraq's
central government and Turkey to move against the PKK forces.
Relations between Iraq and Turkey have grown increasingly strained in recent
months over a Turkish threat of a cross-border incursion against the PKK.
