Newspaper Al-Hayat concentrated on the importance of Talabani’s visit to Turkey:
Talabani arrived to Ankara with high-rank Iraqi delegation, includes ministers of Oil, treasury, Industry and Water Sources.
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat report shows Turkey’s humiliation to Talabani:
Turkey insists that Talabani’s will not get the red-carpet treatment or the 21-gun-salute accorded to the Turkish protocols.
What is interesting about the above Al-Hayat link is the following:
Kurdistan Alliance bloc fears that Talabani’s visit to Turkey in this “sensitive time” is an attempt from Turkey to put differences between the Kurds and to isolate Massoud Barzani.
The same view also seen by this article on Al-Khaleej few days ago:
Washington and Ankara agreed to speed up the withdrawal of the Turkish army from northern Iraq, in this process Turkey agreed to assist Washington to besiege Iran, and to limit the growing Kurdish leader Barzani head of Kurdistan region influence, who became a strategic problem for Washington, especially with his increasing role in the Iraqi political process and blocking the Iraqi Oil and Gas law.
In another article from Al-Qabas, Turkey agree with the American view:
The last five years showed that Talabani unlike Barzani, took flexible positions on Kirkuk issue, speaking of the rights of Turkmen in the city, and rejected the Kurdish dream of an independent Kurdish state, emphasizing the need to live within the existing borders in Iraq, along with Syria, Turkey and Iran.
This explains U.S Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza secret visit to Turkey last Sunday as reported by Turkish newspapers and Al-Qabas said that Talabani’s visit was one of the subjects he discussed with the Turkish government.
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