"US Announces Talks with Turkey, Iraq On PKK Rebels By Amberin Zaman
Ankara
3 January 2005
A top American diplomat is in Turkey, attempting to calm Turkish concerns over Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has proposed three-way talks between Washington, Baghdad and Ankara to work out a plan to deal with Turkish Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. Some five thousand fighters from the group known as PKK/Kongra-Gel are holed up in the mountains separating Iraq from Iran. "
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