Mr. Zebari also asserted that Iraq’s neighbor Turkey had massed 140,000 troops near his country’s northern border...
The Turkish government has long complained that Iraq’s Kurdish regional government has failed to stop separatist Kurdish fighters belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party crossing the border and carrying out attacks in Turkey. The Kurdish party, known as the P.K.K., is a separatist group that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
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