ISTANBUL, turkey — Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Iraq Prime Curate Nouri al-Maliki vowed to halt Kurdish guerillas who are launching incursions into Turkey from northern Iraq, as Iraki functionaries sought to paint an optimistic image of their conflict-torn country-bred to functionaries at an international conference on Iraq.
Iraqi functionaries said they were setting up checkpoints in northern Republic Of Iraq and that if stopped, the Kurdish guerrillas, who belong to a grouping known as the PKK, would be arrested.
The measurements were meant to seek to forestall a threatened Turkish retaliatory strike, which Iraki and U.S. diplomatists feared would further inflame Iraq.
"The Iraki authorities will actively assist Turkey to defeat the PKK," Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, told newsmen after his meeting here with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Turkish Foreign Curate Muhammad Ali Babacan. "We are committed to project a figure of demonstrable and seeable enterprises to disrupt, pacify and to insulate the PKK."
Iraqi Kurd security military units raided the business offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Resolution Party, a grouping closely linked to the PKK, in Irbil and Sulaimaniya on Saturday.
At least 40 armed military personnel surrounded the party's business office in Sulaimaniya and ordered the residents to go forth the city.
"We're doing this because we're getting pressure level from Turkey," said one of the officers, who declined to give his name.
It was ill-defined whether the Iraki moves, which many diplomatists at the conference interpreted as a too-little-too-late effort to avoid Turkish military action, would ultimately halt the cross-border assaults or fulfill Turkey.
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