NATO AGAINST TURKEY INCURSION INTO IRAQ
PanARMENIAN.Net
17.10.2007 18:21 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has
spoken to Turkey’s President and added his voice to international
calls for restraint in the crisis with Iraq, the alliance’s chief
spokesman said Wednesday.
"All parties should exercise the greatest possible restraint precisely
at this time of great tension," said NATO spokesman James Appathurai.
Turkey’s parliament is expected to approve later Wednesday a possible
cross-border military incursion into northern Iraq to chase separatist
Kurdish rebels blamed for terrorist attacks in Turkey.
Appathurai said de Hoop Scheffer had spoken to President Abdullah
Gul late Tuesday to pass on condolences for deadly attacks on Turkey,
which is a NATO member. "He has expressed his understanding for the
great pressure on Turkish society as a result of these regular losses,"
Appathurai told reporters.
He stressed that NATO supports Turkey’s view that the Kurdistan
Workers Party, or PKK, is a terrorist organization, The Associated
Press reports.