Turkey Uneasy About Statements Of Garner

Turkish officials are expected to tell the U.S. official that Kirkuk was not a Kurdish city, and they will remind the final declaration of the Iraqi opposition meeting held in Ankara to which U.S. President Bush’s consultant for Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad also attended.

Garner, the close friend of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed the operation launched 12 years ago at the end of First Gulf Crisis to help Kurds who tried to escape from the region.

The press claimed today that Garner told during his meeting with Kurdish groups in Erbil and Mosul that Kirkuk was a Kurdish city.

(ÖS-AÖ) 24.04.2003