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KDP talks border security
with Turkey; PUl( to curb
PKK with 'diplomacy'
TDN with wire dispatches .
ANKARA- A delegation of senior envoys from the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) closeted with Turkish
Foreign Ministry officials here Thursday for the second day"
running to discuss the terms of its cooperation to make thé
border secure after Turkey winds up its cross-border operation
against the Turkish Kurdish rebels m northern Iraq.
Meanwhile, a rival Iraqi Kurdish group, the Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan (PUK), announced that It would not use arms but
diplomacy to keep the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) guerrillas from harassing.Turkey from Iraq, Agence
France Presse said.
After a third round of negotiations between the KDP officials,
a KDP source told tile TDN that although there had
been considerable progress since a meeting last month in
Salahuddin, northern Iraq, the details of the projected cooperation
had yet to be hamIllered out. The KDP team is heaâed
by Sami Abdurrahman, a senior member of the party's politi-
CID bureau, and includes Nechirwan Barzani, die nep1tCwof
party leader Massoud Barzani. Turkey has asked the KDP and
PUK to bury their feud and cooperate to keep the PKK out of
the border area. The projected scheme involves patrollin,g of
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FRIDAY,MAY5,1995
me DOraerDyme Iraqi Kurdish ~hmergas (fighters).
KDP negotiators have asked, in return, cash support and
Ankara's acquiescence to the rebuildin~ of 300-odd border
villages destroyed by Saddarn Hussein s forces in the past.
They also calion Ankara to recognize the regional government
Iraqi Kurds have set up in the north under Western millt!lIYprotection.
Ankara has been avoiding any dealings with
the- Iraqi Kurds in the past, fearingit would fuel the separatism
of its own Kurds and hann its precarious ties with
Baghdad. While the KDP apparently agreed to border ~ls
"not to please Turkey but beCause of its own responsibility' to
make tlie borders safe for neidlbors," PUK loo~ed averse to
any armed confrontation with the PKK it might entail.
PUK leader Jala! Talabani told AFP that "We don't view
the PKK as terrorists, but as a political organization. We can't
l'revent them from using our area for attacks inside Turkey br.
fildIting them, but by convincing them on a diplomatic level. '
''We won't allow the PKK to use our PUK-controlled area for
attacks against Turkey. We have always made that clear,"
Talabani told AFP. But he urged '1'urkey to cooperate with,
our regional government and to recognize It."
. Ta!äbani's remarks caused an angry reaction in the Turkish.
press which published selected Jlarts and said they bore out'
Turkey's suspicions about the pux. leader seen in the past as
secretly collaborating with the PlOC Talabani has ~lStently
rejected the charges of plaYÏ!!ga double game arid the sides
broke ice last week when a Foreign Ministry delegation met
with Talabani in Erbil.
SATURDAY. MAY 6,1995
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Turkish- US trade cost Turkey
$9.8 billion.over eight years
Turkish
Daily News
WASHINGTON- Between 1987 and 1994
Turkey imported goods from the United States
worth $9.8 billion more than Turkish exports to
the United States, according to the official figures
published in "U.S. Global Trade Outlook 1995-
2000," a report issued by the U.S. Department of
Commerce.
Turkey, nominated by the United States last'
year as one of the ten "Big Emer~ing Markets"
(BEM), lost $1.2 billion in 1994 ID its bilateral
trade with the United States. China, another BEM,
had a surplus of $106.2 billion in the 1987-1994
period in its trade with the United States.
The following BEM countries exported more to
the United States than they imported in 1994:
Brazil, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and South
Korea.
Turkey was ranked 32nd in the list of importers
of U.S. goods between 1988-94. In 1994 alone,
Turkey Imported$2.75 billion worth of U.S.
goods. .
The top importer was Canada, with $114.4 bil~
lion worth of goods in 1994, followed by Japan,
Mexico, Britain, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan,
France, Netherlands and Singapore in the top ten.
Turkey ranked 43rd in the world in terms of
exports to the United States between 1988-94.
Turkey exported $1.6 billion worth of goods to the
United States in 1994.
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