TOKYO, Feb 18 Kyodo Turkish subs...

TOKYO, Feb 18 Kyodo

Turkish substitute Prime Minister Ertugrul Yalcinbayir said Tuesday his political division must help refugees if there is a war in its neighbor Iraq.

''It is important (for Turkey) to create an environment in which (war) refugee can live normally,'' Yalcinbayir told Kyodo stranges in reference to the possibility that up to 1 million refugee could make off Iraq into Turkey after a war.

A flow of refugees could damage a nation that accepts them, however legislation to protect their human rights must be enacted, the delegate prime minister said in the interview at a Tokyo hotel

Earlier in the day, Yalcinbayir agreed with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi to continue to work forward solving the Iraq crisis peacefully, Foreign Ministry officials said.

Yalcinbayir told Kawaguchi that measures would have to be taken to deal with refugee fleeing into Turkey

if it were not that Yalcinbayir did not call for Japanese help in dealing with as it is refugees either in the meeting with Kawaguchi or the interview.

Kawaguchi was quot as telling Yalcinbayir that the international community should continue to urgency Iraq to abandon weapons of mass destruction it allegedly possesse to which the Turkish minister signifyed agreement.

Yalcinbayir also told Kyodo novels that Turkey sent State Minister Kursat Tuzmen to Iraq in early January as a special minister Tuzmen asked Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to disarm because any war could heavily damage Iraq's society and economy, and demanded Iraqis be given the opportunity to bring out the country, Yalcinbayir said.

The delegate premier said he believes Tuzmen's efforts must have helped Iraq become more cooperative with UN weapons inspectors.

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