[iwar] [fc:Turkey.warns.U.S..it.may.annex.northern.Iraq]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Turkey.warns.U.S..it.may.annex.northern.Iraq]
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Geostrategy-Direct
Week of September 3, 2002
FOCUS ON TURKEY 

Turkey warns U.S. it may annex northern Iraq 

Turkish officials said Ankara has warned the United States that Turkey
regards parts of northern Iraq as Turkish territory.  They said the
includes the oil-rich region around Kirkuk. 

The Turkish message was submitted to Washington amid U.S.  talks with
Kurdish opposition groups, officials said.  They said Ankara's message
was meant to stress that Turkey will use force to stop any independent
Kurdish state in northern Iraq and would not rule out annexing parts of
the area. 

Turkish Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said Ankara has the right
to northern Iraq in a claim that has existed since 1920.  That claim was
part of a Turkish parliamentary decision that set the borders of Turkey. 

"It is an area which had been forcibly separated," Cakmakoglu said. 
"Northern Iraq is under our safekeeping."

The statement by the defense minister was regarded as the most explicit
threat by Ankara to annex parts of northern Iraq.  Officials said Turkey
also intends to press Turkoman, or ethnic Turkish claims, to Mosul in
northern Iraq. 

Officials said Turkey has been alarmed by the prospect that the United
States would begin its campaign against the Saddam regime by an attack
in northern Iraq.  They said such a scenario would comprise a
U.S.-supported Kurdish attack against Al Qaida insurgents in northern
Iraq. 

Hundreds of Al Qaida supporters infiltrated northern Iraq in an effort
coordinated by Iran and Iraq amid the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.  The
Al Qaida force, known as Ansar Islam, has been battling the pro-U.S. 
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan over the last month. 

Ansar Islam, which has been in northern Iraq since 1988, was said to
have been bolstered and taken over by Al Qaida insurgents who fled from
Afghanistan over the last year.  The officials said Ansar, with Iranian
supplies and Iraqi weapons, has taken control of Kurdish villages near
the Iranian border. 


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