HUYUK - Parliament Speaker Omer Izgi said on Saturday that operation of oil beds by Turkmen is very important and beneficial for Turkey.
Izgi said that as the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), they had expressed their sensitivity about Northern Iraq issue.
Noting that Mousul, Kirkuk and As Sulaymaniyah were Turkmen regions, Izgi said that they defended Iraq's territorial integrity but Turkey would put forward its sensitivities and do what was necessary in case of division of Iraq as those cities were Turkmen regions.
Stating that Mousul and Kirkuk were in a geography that had a 150-year oil reserve, Izgi said, ''control of oil beds by Turkmen is very important and beneficial for Turkey. More important, Europe is seeking a source for a Kurdish state to be founded in Northern Iraq. A Kurdish state to be founded in Mousul and Kirkuk can always be under Turkey's influence. But it is not wanted to happen like this. They want to annoy and divide Turkey with the income obtained from oil by leaving these territories to sovereignty of a Kurdish state. So we have made Mousul and Kirkuk a national case of Turkey.''
Stressing that the same fight for Cyprus would be made also for this region, Izgi said, ''we took northern part of Cyprus at the right time, and we take our rights in Mousul and Kirkuk in the same way at the right time.''