Source: NTVMSMBC
Turkish intelligence confirm US holding talks with terror organisations
Turkish authorities have expressed their concern over the US having had talks with the terrorist group the PKK-KADEK.
January 22— Turkish intelligence sources have confirmed that some senior US officials had held talks with representatives of the outlawed PKK-KADEK, which has conducted an 18 year long campaign of separatist terror against Turkey.
It is believed that the contacts took place in Northern Iraq. Washington has denied that any talks were conducted by government officials, saying that those who had met with PKK-KADEK members had no link with the US government.
Ankara has warned that such meetings are contradictory to the US-led international campaign to combat terrorism, launched after the September 11 2001 attacks in the US. The issue of the meetings was brought up during the recent visit of the US head of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, to Ankara by the Chief of the Turkish General Staff, General Hilmi Özkok. |