Turkey renews warning to the Kurds: we do not want new adventures

The Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul renewed his country's warning to the Iraqi Kurds against any attempt to expand the self-rule area in northern Iraq.

Replying to a question on the federation project, proposed by the Kurds to the governing council, Gul said in a press conference "we have extended warnings following the recent developments in northern Iraq and other area that might affect Iraq's unity and political integrity. All countries of the region did what we have done on that."

The Turkish minister added "Should such grave developments continue, I fear that Iraq will be once again be converted to a center of pains and sufferings." A statement issued by the Turkish foreign ministry yesterday that " any future plans for the constitutional structure in Iraq will not result in a positive example, unless it honors the will of the Iraqi people as a whole." The statement added that "no body has the right to drag Iraq and the region into new adventures," without remarking directly to the Kurdish idea on confederation.