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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Bastn Özeti
Hot traffic' in northern Iraq
Turkey to station
400 soldiers at N.
Iraq cease-fire line
armed units are to be s~t up along
Military stations consisting of the cease-fire li~e t~ col.1 ect info~a-
. b tion about the sltuatlon In the regIon.
smaIl arme d umts are to e Meanwhile, diplomatic sources
set up along the cease-fire pointed out that i? the third rOl~ndof
line to collect information the northern Iraqi peace talks.-:- the
"Ankara Process" - the p~lclfants
had emphasized the necessIty 0
Ankara- Turkish Daily News
enlarging the PMF.
"We decided to increase the
• The Turkish army sent 400 soldiers
to northern Iraq to assist the because the cease-fire line is very
strength of the force from 200 to 400
Peace Monitoring Force (PMF) consisting
of Turkmens and Assyrians enough. But the Turkmens and
long and a force of 200 is not
on the cease-fire line, senior military Assyrians are to work for the PMF,
officials told the Turkish Daily not Turkish soldiers," said a senior
News.
Turkish foreign ministry official.
The soldiers travelled to the
The Ankara Process, which is
region last.week in anmored vehicles,
according to the same sources. solution to the problems in northern
being carried out to seek a peaceful
Military stations consisting of small Iraq, is sponsored by the United
States, Turkey and Britain. Ankara
Turkish Daily News Tuesday. Aprll29. 1997
,
has hosted a series of talks between
the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
(PUK), the Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP), the Turkmen Front, the
United States, Britain and Turkey.
Ankara is hosting Supervisory
Peace Monitoring Force (SPMG)
meetings almost every week with the
participation of the KDP, the PUK,
Turkmens, British and American
diplomats, and Turkish officials.
The rival Kurdish parties
exchanged prisoners during the Feast
of Sacrifice bayram as a "confidence-building
measure."
PUK.IMK fighting
Shazad Saib, the Pl:K' s representative
in Ankara, told reporters that'
clashes have occurred in the past two
da\'S between their forces and those
o(the Islamic Movement of
Kurdistan (IMK) near Halabja. Two
members of the PMF were injured
after IMK attacks near the
Koysanjak-Degala road, he said.
Asked about the stationing of the
400 Turkish soldiers. Saib said that
he "ruled out" that information
because there was no necessity for '
Turkish soldiers to take responsibili~
ty along the cease-fire line.
Diplomatic sources told the TON
that the fourth multilateral meeting
is scheduled for next month, but the
exact date has not been set.
Iraqi Kurds Announce
Cease Fire
Wednesday, April30, 19975:07 pm EDT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Rival Iraqi Kurdish groups
announced a cease-fire at the conclusion of
Iranian-sponsored peace talks, the official Islamic
Republic News Agency said Wednesday.
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Representatives of the Iranian-backed Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan and the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
held talks in Tehran after recent clashes in northern
Iraq.
The two groups promised in a statement to hold to a
cease-fire and said negotiations should continue "until
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