"Rice Assures Turkey US Backs United Iraq By David Gollust
Ankara
05 February 2005
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara Saturday, as she continued a fast-paced tour of Europe and the Middle East. She assured Turkey, which is worried about Kurdish separatism, that the United States is firmly committed to a unified Iraq.
The new secretary of state met the Turkish prime minister at the Ankara airport, as Ms. Rice arrived from Berlin, and Mr. Erdogan was departing on a trip to inspect tsunami damage in South Asia."
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