IRAQ - Aug. 6 - Kurds Block Turkish Mission.(Brief Article) From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: August 9, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Input Solutions. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Adel Murad, head of the political office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), says Kurdish leaders have refused a US request to allow 12,000 Turkish troops through northern Iraq for a possible peacekeeping assignment in the city of Falluja. Murad says the request came at the weekend from the head of US Central Command Gen. John Abizaid in a meeting in the northern city of Mosul with the leaders of PUK and its occasional rival, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Murad said...

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