 The United States was said to have supported Turkey's military operations against the Kurdish insurgency. Turkey's media have quoted members of the Bush administration as encouraging Ankara's current offensive against the Kurdish Workers Party along the border with Iraq. But the U.S. officials did not endorse a Turkish incursion in northern Iraq, where PKK bases were located. The semi-official Anatolia news agency reported that the United States has supported Ankara's drive against the PKK within Turkish territory. A U.S. official was reported as saying that the PKK was a terrorist group. "In the current situation Turkey has the right to take measures to prevent itself from being subjected to a terror campaign," the U.S. official was quoted as saying. "And we have no objection on that." |