Turkish officials fear that such a development could lead to separatist demands among Kurds in southeastern Turkey.

The Albanian side agreed to abandon separatist demands and to recognise all Macedonian institutions fully.

Elsewhere in France, people have been growing impatient with the waves of violence and the failed attempts to bring peace to this island, where separatist demands are pressed by only a tiny minority.

You suggest that "the international community is not required to support separatist demands for a Kurdish state."

Turkish officials are concerned that the war could give rise to an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq and rekindle separatist demands among the Kurdish population in southeastern Turkey.

John Garang, who was a unionist, accepted a shift in policy of the movement which accommodated separatist demands.

Turkey strongly rejects separatist demands and Ankara's official policy does not acknowledge the existence of a separate, Kurdish identity.

The Turkish government fears the rise of an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq, which could rekindle separatist demands among Kurds in southeastern Turkey.

The Karen Goodwill Mission to London in August 1946 likewise failed to receive any encouragement for their separatist demands from the British government.

However, this demand is not taken well by local people and prominent citizens did not support this separatist demand.