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31. Concerning the revival of Kurdish terrorism, the army is privately warning that it will close down the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in neighboring Iraq if no one else does.

32. That could trigger action by the Turkish Army, which fears the impact on Turkey's Kurds of a strong and essentially independent Kurdish entity next door.

33. Authorities in Baghdad have denounced as illegal the roughly 30 oil contracts negotiated between the Kurdish regional government and foreign energy companies like Addax.

34. The incumbent Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said all problems be settled through constitutional means.

35. Turkey shudders at the thought of a Kurdistan that might some day absorb Turkey's substantial Kurdish minority.

36. The French Press Agency reported that Gul would also be meeting, separately, with the head of the Kurdish regional government, Nechirvan Barzani to discuss how the new accord would be implemented.

37. To the east and north stand Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, keen to reclaim land taken from them by Saddam Hussein more than two decades ago.

38. By the 1990 s swathes of Turkey's rugged Kurdish mountainside had fallen under guerrilla control.

39. The PKK have been fighting the Turkish state, for Kurdish autonomy since 1984.

40. A Goran supporter, parliament member Sirwan Zahawi, said his bloc "could win up to 35 seats" in the 111 seat Kurdish parliament.

41. Turkey has fought Kurdish separatists in the area for 25 years, but this attack has been linked to a local "blood feud" and a pro-Turkish militia.

42. Exports of crude from Kurdistan started last week, after being blocked for years as the central government and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) fought over revenue sharing.

43. Tensions are also running high in the mostly Kurdish south - east.

44. Yet Mr Erdogan could call Mr Ocalan's bluff and pursue Kurdish reforms with greater vigour.

45. The attack is being blamed on Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan workers Party.

46. Turkey maintains Kurdish extremists - members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK - have been launching attacks from northern Iraq on Turkish military personnel and civilians.

47. According to foreign media on August 18 reported that the Turkish military said in a statement the same day, the evening of 17 fighters in northern Iraq, 60 Kurdish targets in armed combat.

48. Tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels have been on the rise as Istanbul has stepped up its campaign against the Kurdistan Workers Party in response to increased attacks by the group.

49. The Kurdish rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, say their losses are much lower, though none of the figures can be independently verified.

50. He says the Kurdish government allowed cronies to profit from an oil deal, which should have been strictly between Kurdistan and the foreign oil company that won the contract.

51. In Elazig, an eastern city, a mob attacked a Kurdish neighbourhood, raising the spectre of inter-communal violence.

52. A group of Kurdish refugees (among them a father and son) tries to get to Great Britian by hiding in the back of a trailer truck.

53. The Militias have not been disarmed and the local Kurdish army, the Peshmerga, is holding the north separate.

54. It also gives the Baghdad government unsatisfactory marks, for failing to prepare for local elections and couldn't (that could) reconcile Iraq('s) Shiite (Shi'ite) Sunni and Kurd's (Kurdish) factions.

55. In Nineveh, carefully negotiated agreements dictated where the Kurdish militias, or pesh merga, would be stationed around the polls,(Sentencedict) along with the local and national Iraqi police and the army.

56. But they will not succeed if AK keepssnubbing the biggest Kurdish party, the DTP.

57. Turkish newspapers on Thursday accused Iraqi and Iraqi Kurdish leaders of dishonesty and unreliability, saying they promised much but delivered virtually nothing.

58. The local militia was formed in 1985 by the government to fight against the Kurdish insurgency of the Kurdistan workers party (PKK).

59. They speak the Kurdish language, which is a member of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages.

60. The Kurdish regional government also shares this view, and has been working to revise its foreign investment law to attract international investors to the north.