| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and other papers relating to Iraq's relations with Turkey with regard to the Kurds and Euphrates water. These include press reports of killings on the Iraq-Turkey border (November 1989), talks between Turkish officials and Iraqi Kurds during the Gulf War (March 1991), an interview about Turkey and the Kurds with Iraqi information minister Hamid Yusuf Hammadi, discussions between the agricultural ministers of Turkey, Syria and Iraq about the distribution of water from the Euphrates, allegations that Turkish diversion of the water to fill a dam was being used as political pressure with regard to control of Kurds on the border with Iraq, the text of a statement by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan on the Turkish-Iraqi agreement (24 October 1984). presscuttings and telex reports regarding the activities of Kurdish guerillas on the border and their pursuit into Iraq by Turkish troops (1984) as well as various discussions of the relationship between Iran and the Kurds and the political consequences for trade and credit agreements between Iraq and Turkey. |