Gul Harshly Condemns Suicide Attack In Front Of Turkish Embassy In Baghdad

PUTRAJAYA - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul condemned on Tuesday suicide attack on Turkish Embassy in Baghdad and said that the attack once more showed the need for everybody's contribution to settlement of stability and security in Iraq.
Gul, who is in Malaysia to attend the Ministerial Preparatory Meeting of the 10th Session of the Islamic Summit Conference of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), made a statement on the suicide attack staged in front of Turkish Embassy in Baghdad.
Recalling that the Foreign Ministry would make a statement on the suicide attack, Gul said, ''this incident has once more showed the need for contributions of everybody to settlement of stability and security in Iraq.''
Gul noted that Turkey had contacted Iraqi Interim Governing Council to harshly condemn that attack.
Turkish delegation currently in Kuala Lumpur expressed Turkey's expectations of Iraq's reaction to the suicide attack to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who was also in Malaysia for OIC summit, Gul added.
(BRC) 14.10.2003