The World - News from Sept. 20, 1988
The Iranian government said that 2,400 Iraqi Kurds seeking political asylum have come to Iran from Turkey, joining 19,000 more who fled earlier from Iraq. The Iranian news agency IRNA said the Kurds were granted asylum after arriving at the border town of Seru. Iran said it was responding to Turkey’s request that other countries help absorb some of the 60,000 Kurds who had fled there after accusing Iraq of using poison gas against them. Iraq has denied the charges of chemical warfare and refused to allow a U.N. a team to investigate.
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