"Zaman Asks, Edelman Answers
Part II
Published: Tuesday 11, 2005
zaman.com
Do you think that a military intervention against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) comes to agenda?
I don't think that is likely to come up because our immediate preoccupation in terms of the use of our military assets is to provide security for the elections on January 30th. And that's the immediate goal.
I think that, on the question of our troops, there really is a little bit of miscommunication because of media bias not here in Turkey, but also in the United States. If you look at maybe the poll data or if you read, ever, the emails, as I do sometimes, of our troops in Iraq or talk to any of the commanders who are there and several of them are people I know well, our troops are extremely highly motivated. They know why they are there. "
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