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Turkey, US focused on intelligence sharing Monday, November 26, 2007 <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=89540#> Ankara - Turkish Daily News Top Turkish and U.S. military officials held talks here Saturday on joint efforts to combat outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants based in northern Iraq in the second such meeting this week, the Turkish army said. This was the second meeting of its kind in the last week. Commander of U.S. forces in Europe, General Bantz Craddock, paid a visit to <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=89540#> Turkey Saturday and discussed the "cooperation issues in the joint struggle against the PKK terrorist organization, including intelligence sharing, with Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaþar Büyükanýt, the military said in a statement. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman General James Cartwright and General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, met the Turkish army's number two, Gen. Ergin Saygun, in Ankara last Tuesday. Ankara and <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=89540#> Washington agreed on the formation of the joint intelligence sharing center, in a move to ensure secure and rapid intelligence flow, said media reports. The talks followed pledges by U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this month that Washington will provide Ankara with real-time intelligence on the movements of PKK militants. The pledge was largely seen as tacit U.S. approval for limited cross-border Turkish strikes, notably air <http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=89540#> raids, against PKK targets in northern Iraq. Ankara said last week that the intelligence sharing had begun. The Turkish Parliament last month authorized the government to order troops into northern Iraq if necessary to crack down on PKK camps there. Turkey has massed an estimated 100,000 troops and military equipment along the Iraqi border. Washington and Baghdad oppose any large-scale Turkish military operation in northern Iraq, fearing it could destabilize a relatively calm region of the war-torn country. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
