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Bahceli: Barzani's Statement Is Unacceptable How Kurdistan's first suicide bomber changed his mind Interrogations link Al Qaeda to Iraq Two hundred Iraqi Kurdish immigrants land in southern Italy Turkey, Iraqi Kurdish Tensions High Jalal Talabani Interview with Asharq Al-Awsat Iraqi Kurd Fighters Seen More Organized Iranian troops deployed on Iraqi border: Kurds Saddam's son says Iran not al-Qaeda behind Kurdistan Islamist group KDP Slams Berlin Embassy Seizure as "Terrorism" Barham Salih: The Radical group Ansar al-Islam Plans Attacks Talabani Wants US Date for Post-Saddam Poll U.S. Monitors Kurdish Extremists raq orders banks to be opened in Kurdistan Saddam will not stop me being a Kurd
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Turkey against
unilateral Kurdish plans on Iraq future
ANKARA, Sept 27 (AFP) Turkey said Friday that breakaway Kurds in northern Iraq, who have agreed on a plan for an "Iraqi federal republic," should not impose their vision on other groups in the region. "It is our sincere wish that no group in Iraq will move towards imposing on others what they consider convenient for themselves," Tacan Ildem, the spokesman for President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, told reporters. "It is important that all ethnic groups that form the Iraqi people have an equal say in the future of Iraq," Ildem said. The two main groups administering northern Iraq -- the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- have drawn up draft constitutions for a future "Iraqi federal republic" and for their autonomous enclave, Iraqi Kurdish sources said Tuesday. The agreement envisages a future federation made up of Arab and Kurdish regions. A Turkish delegation, meanwhile, met in northern Iraq with KDP officials in an effort to defuse the tensions, KDP official Houshia Zibari said. "The visit was destined to eliminate the tension between Ankara and the KDP," Zibari said. Ankara fears the two factions, which have run the area under the protection of a US-enforced no-fly zone since the 1991 Gulf War, could move towards independence if the United States ousts the Baghdad regime. Turkey has warned it would not allow an independent Kurdish state on its border.
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