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Iran's Mulla Regime Cooperates with Turkish Generals Against PKK

Iran cooperation with Turkey against Kurdish PKK

The New Anatolian/ Feb 25, 2006

The Iranian government is showing greater willingness to strengthen cooperation with Turkey in the security field and has recently extradited 30 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Rebels to Turkey, Turkish sources said on Thursday.

Following the 11th Turkey-Iran High Security Council session, which was held in Tehran last Tuesday, both countries are preparing to upgrade the existing legal framework in security cooperation. Turkish sources said on Friday that the current legal framework is based mainly on an agreement that dates back more than 70 years, and following long insistence by Turkey to revise it, the Iranian side has just shown a stronger willingness to do that.

Turkish sources also noted that Iran recently extradited 30 Kurds PKK members to Turkey, and 45 more PKK members detained by Iranian authorities are expected to also sent to Turkey.

Last week, Iranian police clashed with a group of PKK members along the Iranian-Turkish border and two of the PKK members were killed.