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    ENVOY TO TURKEY: US UNEASY ABOUT KURDISH EFFORTS TO CHANGE KIRKUK DEMOGRAPHY

    Anatolia news agency, Ankara
    20 Oct 04


    Kayseri, 20 October: US Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman said on
    Wednesday (20 October) that also the United States felt uneasy about
    Kurdish groups' attempts to change demographic structure in Kirkuk,
    Iraq, by settling their families in the city.

    Speaking at a conference held in the Erciyes University in central
    city of Kayseri on "2004 Presidential Elections in the United States",
    Edelman said that there would not be serious changes in Turkey-US
    relations following the presidential elections in the United
    States. Stressing that the United States had been supporting Turkey's
    EU process since 1963, Edelman said that there could be a difference
    between the two candidates (President George W. Bush and John Kerry)
    about a resolution like the draft on so-called Armenian genocide. He
    said that the candidates, sometimes, could not fulfil their promises
    when they came to the power. He highlighted strategic importance of
    Turkey-US relations.

    Edelman said he believed that the Turkish government, the Iraqi heads
    of state and government and the United States were in favour of
    preserving Iraqi's political unity and territorial integrity.

    When asked, "who will be bombed next?" Edelman said that there had
    been very sound relations between Turkey and the United States, and
    any attack on Turkey would be out of question. Referring to the
    relations between the Turkish prime minister and the US president,
    Edelman said that those relations were further consolidated during
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Washington DC and
    President George W. Bush's visit to Turkey for NATO summit.

    He said that Turkey and the United States had been working together to
    find a solution to the Cyprus issue.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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