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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti Kurds warn White House not to adopt Baker ...Hamilton report December 12, 2006 By Mohammed A. Salih and Jamal Ekhtiar The Globe - Erbil Barzani considered the ISG's failure to visit Kurdistan dunng the nine months that they were - preparing the report "a major President of the Kurdistan Re- shortcommg that adversely mflugion dismissed the report by enced the credibility of the (ISG) the Iraq Study Group (ISG) assessment." as "unrealistic and inappro- He threatened that Kurds will priate" and lashed out at the seek mdependence should the major recommendations of the White House implement key group, saying it will endanger proposaIs by the Baker-Hamil- Iraq's territorial integrity and ton report on Kirkuk, federahsm, that Kurds will "in no way chan,ges in the constitution, and abide" by il. control of oil resources. The furious reaction by Mas- 'The part of the report that caIls soud Barzani came two days for postponing the implementaafter the report by the ISG, cochaired by former D.S. Secretary of State James Baker III and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, was released last Wednesday. The report described the situation in Iraq as "grave and deteriorating" and made 79 recommendations to President George W. Bush on Iraq and wider Middle East problems. "We think that the Iraq Study Group has made sorne unrealistic and inappropriate recommendations for helping the D.S. to get out of these (Iraq) difficulties," Barzani said in his sharply worded statement released last Friday. "If under this pretext, these m- appropriate recommendations are imposed on us, we declare, on behalf of the people of Kurdlstan, that we reject anything that is against the constitution and the interest of Iraq and Kurdistan." tion of the constitutional article (140) on Kirkuk will lead to an explosive situation in the country," Ghafour Makhmouri, a member of Kurdistan Parliament in Arbil, told the Globe. On Fnday, Barzani told a gathering of Kurdish lawmakers and mmisters in Baghdad that the real problem in Iraq will arise when Kurds feel there are parties hindering Kirkuk's annexation to Kurdistan. Groups of Turkomans and Arabs in the city are opposed to the idea and call for Kirkuk to be given the special status ofa separate federal region. Kurds are also against a major recommendation of the report that cautions against Iraq's devolution into three regions. Along with Shias, they advocate federalism on ethnic and sectarian bases. They disapprove major changes to the constitution as weil as that might imperil their gains of federalism, "normalizing Kirkuk situation" and control of oil resources. Iraq's President, Jalal Talabani, also a Kurd, expressed support for the statement by the Kurdlsh regional president and branded the report's recommendations as "dangerous". The ISG's 96-page report advises Bush to launch a New Diplomatic Offensive and engage Iraq's neighboring countries, including Iran and Syria and Turkey, to help the U.S. resolve Irag's tense situation. "Politically, Iran and Syna scored a victory over the D.S., and the report's recommendation 10 negoliate with them is an undeniable proof for that," Kamal Saadi, Head of Law Department m Arbil's Salahaddin University told the Globe. "It is these neighboring countries that do not let Iraq administer itself. They disrupt the country's security and pohtical situation and help terrorists infiltrate into Iraq and are settling their old scores with America on Iraq's soi!." Kurds fe~r the neighboring countries' involvement in Iraqi affairs will negatively affect their position in the country. Turkey does not recognize Kurdistan 's federal status and has threatened to use military force should Kurds secede from Iraq. Likewise, Iran and Syria are concemed about Kurds' growing influence and weight in Iraqi politics. All three countries have sizable Kurdish populations with separalist tendencies, which, they worry, will be inspired by the gains of Iheir fellow Kurds in Iraq. Amld concerns in Iraq and the U.S. on the report's fate, the Bush administration has shown little willingness so far to adopt the report. On Thursday, Baker told the U.S. Senate that Bush should treat his report as a whole and not in a selective manner. Bush, however, is not considering ail points of the report. During a joint news conference with British Prime Minster Tony Blair, one day after the report was released, he made it clear that talking with Iran and Syria is not an option. Kurds feel they have not been rewarded for their assistance to the D.S. during the war on Iraq and its aftermath. They fear the ISG report, if implemented, will practically lead to a situation slmilar to 1975, when after the Aigeria Accord between Iran and Iraq, Kurdish self-rule in northern Iraq collapsed and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. "Such positions (in the report) are against the concepts of democracy and human rights that America calls for," Makhmouri noted. "It will damage America's credibility among the peoples who count on its help for their liberation." Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani and US ambassador to Iraq Zalmai Khaiilzad talk to each other at a meeting of Kurdistan parliament ln Erbil May 7,2006. 35
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti TURKEY AND KURDS: GIVE PEACEA CHANCE! The unilateral "cease-fire declaration" of 1st October 2006, declarded by the PKK and by KONG RA-GEL, opens new and unprecedented political prospects for peace and reconciliation in Turkey. The search for a negotiated and non-violent political solution to the "Kurdish question" in Turkey also concerns the European Union and the entire international community. After the cease-fire, it is the task and dut y of the Turkish authorities to take this new opportunity to engage in a public and transparent political process of discussion with the representatives of the Kurds ofTurkey about the "Kurdish question". That is why we ask the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyp Erdogan, to embrace the spirit and the letter of the reœnt European Parliament's report "on Turkey's progress to accession to the EU", adopted on 27th September 2006 by the peoples' representatives of the 25 European Union's Member States, especially those paragraphs asking Turkey to enter into direct discussions with the representatives of the Kurds ofTurkey, a political process that will certainly have our support, the support of ail European institutions and of the international democratic civil society. We must support the cease-fire to give peace a chance, we must support the opening of direct discussions between Turkey and representatives of the Kurds to give democracy a chance, and the basic rights of the Kurdish people must finally be recognised. Signatories of the Appeal: TURKEY AND KURDS: GIVE PEACEA CHANCE! Harold Pinter, Nobel Peace Pnze Laureate, UK; Imre Kertész, Nobelpnce Owner (Uterature) BudapestIBerhn, Venerable Thich Quang Do, Unified Buddhlst Church of Vietnam (UBCV), Raflo Prize 2006; Bianca Jagger, Councii of Europe Goodwlil Ambassador, UK; Vo Van Ai, President of Que Me; Jean Ziegler, GenflZurich, United Nations Special Rapporteur / UN Task Force Iraq,Paulos Tesfagiorgis, Lawyer and Raflo Prize Laureate 2003, Eritrea/USA; Vittorio Agnoletto, EP-Kurds Group, MEP-GUElNGL; Monica Frassoni, Chair MEP-V-ALE Group, Francis Wurtz, Chair MEP- GUElNGL Group; Hélène Flautre, Chair DROI, MEP-V-ALE; Luisa Morgantini, Chair DEVE, MEP-GUEINGL; Frieda Brepoels, MEP-PPE; Marie- Arlette Charlotti, MEP-PSE; Jiri Mastalka, MEP-GUElNGL; Ewa Pettersen Hedkvis~ MEP-PSE; Renate Sommer MEP-PPE; Jens Holm, MEP- GUEINGL; Panagiotis Beglitis, MEP-PSE; Britta Thomsen, MEP-PSE; Marios Matsakis, MEP-ADLE; Jean Lambert, MEP-V-ALE; Bernat Joan i Mari, MEP-V-ALE, Feleknas Uca, MEP-GUElNGL; Baroness Sarah Ludford, MEP-ADLE; Roberto Musacchio, MEP-GUElNGL; Baart Staes MEP-V/ ALE; Adamos Adamou, MEP-GUE; Pierre Jonckheer, MEP-PSE; Bairbre De Brun, MEP; Inger SegelstrOm, MEP-PSE; Dimitri Papadimoulis, MEP-GUEINGL; Umberto Guidoni, MEP-GUElNGL; Tatjana Zdanoka, MEP-V-ALE; Willy Meyer Pleite, MEP-GUElNGL; Mary Lou McDonald, MEP-GUElNGL; Pierre Jonckheer, MEP-Green/EFA; Jan Andersson, MEP-PSE; Miguel Portas, MEP-GUEINGL; Anna Hedh, MEP- PSE, Gabriele Zimmer, MEP-GUEINGL, Asa Westlund, MEP-PSE; Giusto Catania, GUEINGL; Vincenzo Aita, MEP-GUE/NGL; Enrico Speroni, MEP-NI, Bernadette Bourzai, MEP-PSE; Chiesa Giulietto MEP-PSE, Sven Wollter,; Dr. Mehmoud Othman Member of National Assemply of Iraq; Bodil Ceballos, Member of Swedish parllament; Gunvor G Ericson, Member of Swedlsh parliament; Peter Radberg, Member of Swedlsh Parhament, Pater Wolfgang Jungheim, Pax Chnstl Nassau-Lahnsteln, Rashidi-Kalhur Ardishlr, President, Southern Califomla DiviSion United Nations Association of the USA; Mel Boynton Claremont, CA; Dfawer Afa' Aldeen, Professor ln MediCIne,Edltor-in-Chlef, Zanln Scienllflc Joumal,Dr. Dilan Roshani Nottingham, UK; Tove Skutnabb Kangas dr.phll, Roskilde University, Denmarl< & Abo Akademl UniVersity, Flnland; Robert Phillipson, Professor, Copenhagen BUSinessSchool, Denmarl
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