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Turkish Foreign Ministry: Barzani Is Aggressive Against Turkey Anatolia ANKARA - The Foreign Ministry has said that the anti-Turkey words that Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Massoud Barzani expressed to the German weekly Die Welt newspaper were ''aggressive and objectionable''. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yusuf Buluc responded a question about Barzani's statement to Die Welt. Releasing a statement on Friday, the Foreign Ministry stressed that in an interview with Barzani in Die Zeit's periodical dated September 5, 2002, ''once again, Barzani unfortunately adopted an aggressive and objectionable manner against Turkey and ignored the fact that confidence and prosperity which have been continuing to exist in northern Iraq as a result of first of all Turkey's support and understanding.'' Noting that in his statement in which he had put forward his desires that target Iraq's unity and territorial integrity, Barzani had confessed, maybe for the first time in such a clear way, that 'they have a relationship based on mutual respect with the PKK-KADEK terrorist organization', the Foreign Ministry statement said that Barzani's 'this unfortunate statement seriously contradicts with the approach that the KDP officials have been putting forward in their meetings in Ankara'. ''In this situation, Turkey has to take Barzani's statements to press into consideration,'' it said. ''As it can be remembered that in a response to a question that was asked on August 21 again upon Barzani's similar statements, it was affirmed that Turkey's Iraq policy depends on two basic principles, that is, Iraq's territorial integrity should be protected under any condition and decisions about Iraq's future should be taken by whole Iraqi people, and it was stressed that the political parties in the northern Iraq should act with this conscious and understanding,'' it said. ''At this point, the KDP leader, as soon as possible, has to take a definite decision on his point of view about Turkey and his relationship with a terrorist organization which shed blood in Turkey. Turkey will follow the issue and take the steps required by its national interests with determination,'' the Foreign Ministry added.
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