Erbil - Nechirvan Barzani, the former Kurdistan Region premier, thought Kurdistan relations with Turkey are "at the top level", while he deemed the Kurdish issue in Turkey cannot be settled through military option.
The statements by the former Kurdish PM and the current deputy president of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), were made in an interview with the Turkish Teref newspaper Monday.
In the interview Barzani alluded to many housing projects and various other investment ventures by Turkish companies in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region (northern Iraq) as well as the volume of the trade exchange between the Region and Turkey in 2010 which topped $7 billion. He added to boost the exchange the two sides are preparing to open a new border point, beside the current one-Ibrahim Khalil.
As an example for the improved political relations with Turkey, the KDP second person said in the past few years Turkey had deployed some 200 thousand troops on the borders with Kurdistan.
The deployment allegedly was to confront potential attacks from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)- a militant Kurdish organization in armed struggled with Turkey for three-decades for the ethnic rights of Kurds in Turkey.
Asked about the PKK and the Kurdish issue in Turkey, Barzani said currently the issue is given the most attention. He reiterated the issue should be settled by the involved parties in Turkey and through dialog.
The paper quoted Barzani, saying "Don't take me wrong. By dialog I don't mean conducting dialog with the PKK but any party involved in the issue."
"Military option is not the solution."
To Barzani the Kurdish issue is political and he believed Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish PM has taken the correct direction for solving it.
Turkish constitution recognizes "one nation, one flag and one language" and thus sidelines the ethnic rights of several groups in the country, including the 20 million Kurds.
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