US and Turkey seek common ground

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Looks like the Kurds are about to get screwed by another Bush. What else is new? Don

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3079485.stm

Two top United States generals have been holding talks in the Turkish capital, Ankara, in an apparent effort to ease the recently strained relations between the two allies.

General John Abizaid, the new head of US Central Command which oversees American forces in Iraq, is leaving Ankara on Saturday after discussions with the Turkish military and foreign ministry. snip

Both sides will be trying to smooth over the after-effects of a major row which erupted after American forces arrested 11 members of Turkey's special forces in largely Kurdish Northern Iraq earlier this month.

Meanwhile the Turkish military may want to press the Americans to take action against fighters of Turkey's Kurdish separatist group, the PKK, who still have bases in Northern Iraq.

And Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has suggested that the two military delegations could also discuss the possibility of Turkish peacekeepers being sent to Iraq.

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