| | | | 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.
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