Ali Asker and His Fellow PKK Terrorits: Eat Your ****en Hearts Out:
The Kurdish administration in northern Iraq has initiated the
establishment of a Turkish language department at Salahaddin
University in Arbil, in an apparent gesture to Turkey.
Kurds and Turks genuinely love and respect each other.
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Kurdish university in N. Iraq opens Turkish department
23 September 2008, Tuesday
AL=DDHAN HASANO=D0LU ARBIL
The Kurdish administration in northern Iraq has initiated the
establishment of a Turkish language department at Salahaddin
University in Arbil, in an apparent gesture to Turkey.
The Turkish language department is being headed by Assistant Professor
Ramazan =C7ak=FDr of Turkey, and three of the total staff of six are
Turks. The department, which is expected to become a bridge of
dialogue between Iraqi Kurds and Turkey, will begin offering courses
in the 2008-2009 school year.
Bilateral relations between Iraq and Turkey took a landmark turn in
July with an official visit by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo=F0an to
Baghdad, making Erdo=F0an the first senior Turkish leader to visit
neighboring Iraq since the US-led war in 2003.
Erdo=F0an and his Iraqi counterpart, Nouri al-Maliki, signed a do***ent
during their meeting committing the two countries to maintaining a
high-level strategic dialogue in the areas of trade, energy and
security. Accordingly, the ministers for security, energy, trade,
investment and water resources will meet three times a year and the
prime ministers will meet at least once a year to review progress on
issues under discussion. The do***ent did not mention the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in Iraqi territory but called for
stronger cooperation on border security.
Following clear statements showing Ankara's will for dialogue, the
largely autonomous Kurdish administration in northern Iraq took a step
for improving relations with Turkey and ordered its Ministry for
Higher Education to open a department of Turkish language. The
ministry had discussions with Salahaddin University, and eventually
the department of Turkish language was opened as part of the
university's school of foreign languages.
Mohammad Sadik, president of Salahaddin University, told the Cihan
news agency that he believes the new department will serve as a bridge
between the region and Turkey as well as Turkish universities.
Salahaddin University cooperates with 70 universities in a number of
countries; however, it has no partner****p with any university in
Turkey, Sadik said.
"Our sole contact with Turkey at the moment is the Turkish schools
here. Our children are learning Turkish although education is in
English at these schools. This connects us to Turkey. We hope these
kinds of contacts improve with the new Turkish language department,"
Sadik said. He also explained that 35 students will be able to attend
Turkish courses at the university in the 2008-2009 school year;
however, he said this number is to increase during the next school
term.
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