Turkey uneasy over new Iraqi constitution

Speaking after a meeting of the cabinet Monday afternoon, Çiçek said that Turkey had a number of concerns regarding the new constitution, though the minister did not elaborate.
However, Ankara has repeatedly stressed its opposition to the granting of semi-autonomous status to the majority Kurdish population of Northern Iraq and to the lack of recognition of the region’s Turkomen community in the new constitution.
“We consider the interim constitution an arrangement which doesn’t satisfy us, which raises our concerns and uneasiness, and which will not help settlement of permanent peace and which will cause continuation of instability and lack of tranquillity in this country for a long time. We have tried to explain this to the concerned countries by letters or by other means. Our evaluations continue.”