plot thickens.. two short pieces about the arrest of those Turkish soldiers by the US occupation forces in IraqTalabani: We invited Turkish soldiers to Sulemani10/07/2003 KurdishMedia.com - By Bryar MariwaniLondon (KurdishMedia.com) 10 July 2003: Jalal Talabani, the general secretary of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told the Turkish state run Anadolian Agency regarding the recent arrest of the Turkish Special Forces in south Kurdistan, that he didn’t want the Turkish soldiers to be detained and treated like they were. "The Turkish soldiers are our guests. We invited them here," Talabani said.
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Talabani rejects involvement in detention of Turkish troopsJuly 10 — The leader of a Northern Iraqi Kurdish faction has denied that his group had pushed for the arrest of 11 Turkish soldiers detained by US forces on Friday.
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“They didn’t inform us beforehand and they didn’t ask for permission,” he said. “We didn’t want the Turkish soldiers to be detained and to see them in this position. The Turkish soldiers are our guests. We invited them here. We told the Americans that the thing they did was wrong.”
The PUK leader said that he still wanted to make his scheduled visit to Turkey and to explain the correct version of what happened in the raid against the Turkish troops.
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