Iraq will not be sanctuary for Turkey’s Kurdish separatists: Maliki
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki reportedly assured Turkish leaders that his country will not be a sanctuary for Kurdish separatist rebels from Turkey. “We will not allow Iraq to serve as a base for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party),” Maliki told Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a telephone conversation, according to an Erdogan advisor cited by the Anatolia news agency. Full Story