Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that "Iraq is a small Middle East. Kirkuk is a small Iraq." He warned Annan during their talk in New York that, in case incident similar to Telafer occurred in Kirkuk the result would be "Terrible."

He said, "The Kirkuk issue is very dangerous. The coalition forces should work hard to win the hearts to the people."