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Europe
Bush pledges US help to Turkey over Kurd rebels
2006-07-23
CRAWFORD, Texas - US President George W. Bush told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday that the United States will help Turkey in the face of attacks by Kurdish rebels, the White House said.

The two leaders also discussed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s upcoming trip to the Middle East and “ways to address the humanitarian needs of the Lebanese people” amid Israeli strikes, said spokeswoman Dana Perino. “They also discussed the continuing PKK terrorist attacks against Turkey. The president told the prime minister that the United States will work with Turkey to deal with this terrorist threat,” said Perino.
So Erdogan whined enough and Bush makes a statement to give him some cover.
The two leaders had also spoken on the telephone Thursday, after Ankara threatened a cross-border operation if Washington and Baghdad fail to crack down on the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Bush shouldn't do anything for these two faced punks. If Turkey would've allowed our boys to enter from their country, there wouldn't even be such a thing as "Sunni Triangle Insurgency."
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2006-07-23 22:54  

#4  I hope we got something for it or it is an empty promise. But knowing Bush, I doubt it. This is where his get along with everyone, don't fire anyone attitude costs. It is his biggest weakness.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-07-23 20:51  

#3  The fifth horseman of the apocalypse denial. Till the Turks can acknowledge their own history they can feck off, we dont need them since the end of the cold war anyway.Ýpne.
Posted by: pihkalbadger   2006-07-23 20:40  

#2  The only thing Erdoğan is good at is whining. Funny how he never whines about the 40,000 Kurds his regime murdered between 1984 and 1999.

Nor about the 40,000 Kurds his regime murdered at Dersim in a year or so back in 1937-38.

It's always better to die on your feet than on your knees.
Posted by: Azad   2006-07-23 00:49  

#1  "Ergy, this is the Prez. I'm ropin' some cows here on the ranch. Sure, we're goin' to hep you out, just like you hepped us when we needed it a coupla years ago. Remember that ? I called you three times on that one. Gotta go, this calf is fightin' me"
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-07-23 00:39  

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