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| US 'to help Turkey combat rebels' |
| US President George W Bush has promised extra help to tackle Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, following talks with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-November-2007
0:25:15 AM |
| Mr Bush offered to share intelligence with Turkey and declared the PKK rebel organisation "an enemy of Turkey, a free Iraq and the United States".
Turkey has threatened to hit bases used by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) unless the US and Iraq do more to help.
Washington has urged Ankara not to launch cross-border strikes into Iraq.
US officials fear such action could destabilise northern Iraq, up to now the most stable region of the country.
Kurdish protests
The Turkish government is under public pressure to use force against the PKK following a series of deadly attacks in Turkey, and has sent thousands of troops to the Iraqi border.
Speaking in Washington at a joint news conference with Mr Erdogan, Mr Bush pledged to strengthen political and military cooperation and to improve intelligence sharing between the US, Turkey and Iraq.
"I made it very clear to the prime minister that we want to work in a close way to deal with this problem," Mr Bush said.
"We talked about the need to have better intelligence sharing.
"In order to chase down people who murder people, you need good intelligence. We talked about the need for our militaries to stay in constant contact."
Mr Erdogan said Ankara saw it as very important that there was a unified approach to tackling the PKK rebels
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