CAIRO, 14 November (RIA Novosti). According to the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is the crisis on the Iraqi-Turkish border "virtually exhausted. The
said Talabani in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. "
According to him, the Iraqi delegation was able to convince at the recent conference in Istanbul, the Turkish leadership believes that Baghdad "is in fact against the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) fighting that are illegal residents in northern Iraq."
"We have agreed to restrict their movement, and forbidden to move from one city to another and to use the airports," said Talabani.
He felt that the meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President George W. Bush on 5 November makes it possible to reduce tensions on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
"As I believe there is no danger of a Turkish invasion of Kurdistan more," concluded the Iraqi president.
The Turkish parliament adopted the government granted in mid-October a one-year mandate for cross-border military operation, where, according to the army were some 3,500 PKK fighters concentrated.
The conflict with the PKK, which leads an armed struggle for independence since 1984, has been around 40 000 people lost their lives. The Turkish authorities are categorically refusing to hold dialogue with the separatists would use violence and the Put an end to PKK.
Turkey has pulled together a 100 000 strong force on the border with northern Iraq. The television stations NTV and CNN-Turk, according to the Turkish Air Force in the early hours of Tuesday (at 2:00 clock time) Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq border area attacked.
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