Turkey Hints at Sanctions Against Iraq
SUZAN FRASER, AP
Turkish leaders on Tuesday raised the threat of political and economic sanctions. A statement issued after a four-hour National Security Council meeting said Turkey would closely watch Iraq's response to a Turkish request for urgent measures against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq. "Political, economic and other approaches to be considered were evaluated," the statement said. It did not elaborate on the measures discussed, but many Turks have called for the government to close the border crossing to northern Iraq, which is an important route for food and other goods reaching Iraqi Kurds...
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Turkish leaders on Tuesday raised the threat of political and economic sanctions. A statement issued after a four-hour National Security Council meeting said Turkey would closely watch Iraq's response to a Turkish request for urgent measures against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq. "Political, economic and other approaches to be considered were evaluated," the statement said. It did not elaborate on the measures discussed, but many Turks have called for the government to close the border crossing to northern Iraq, which is an important route for food and other goods reaching Iraqi Kurds...
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Ankara Pillories Iraqi Kurds
Statements by Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani have lit a powder keg in Turkey, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Iraqi Kurdistan's leaders.
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