"Rice warns Turkey to keep out of Iraq
By Steven R. Weisman
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2006
ANKARA Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Turkish leaders on Tuesday that the United States would step up efforts to stop the infiltration of Kurdish insurgents from Iraq into Turkey, but she warned the Turkish government not to send troops into Iraq to do the job.
Addressing what has become a new irritant in relations with Turkey, Rice acknowledged that the problem of infiltration by Kurdish rebels into Turkey from Kurdish regions in northern Iraq had been allowed to grow.
The Turkish foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, said there had been a surge in such infiltration in recent weeks."
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