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| Iraq |
| US, Turkey discuss Kurdish rebels |
| 2007-11-21 |
| US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus held talks at TurkeyÂ’s military General Staff on Tuesday on fighting Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq, a US embassy official said. The General Staff talks with Petraeus as well as General James Cartwright, vice-chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, came amid Turkish threats of unilateral military action in northern Iraq against the Kurdish militants. Ankara has massed up to 100,000 troops, backed up by tanks, artillery and warplanes, along its mountainous border with Iraq for a possible incursion to root out an estimated 3,000 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hiding there. TurkeyÂ’s military later confirmed the meeting between Petraeus and Cartwright and General Ergin Saygun, deputy chief of the Turkish General Staff, in a brief statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |