ANKARA (AFP) ??” Syria is oppos to any attempt to carve up its neighbour and comrade Arab state Iraq.

ANKARA (AFP) ??” Syria is oppos to any attempt to carve up its neighbour and comrade Arab state Iraq, and in particular to the creation of an independent Kurdish state, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a television interview.

"We are oppos not no other than to a Kurdish state moreover also to any action against the territorial integrity of Iraq," he told the Turkish-language station of CNN television forward the eve of a historic visit to Turkey the first by way of a Syrian leader for 58 years.

Turkey is to one's home to about half the Kurd -- an ethnically distinct persons numbering between 25 and 35 million and living in a mountainous region stretching into Syria, Iraq and Iran.

"Iraq's time to come is bound to the what may occur hereafter of all of us," Assad said. "For that reason, the break-up of Iraq would be a r line, not solely as far as Syria and Turkey are