Sunday, September 30, 2007

US baffled by Erdoğan’s accusations of tanks in PKK hands

"US baffled by Erdoğan’s accusations of tanks in PKK hands

The United States said it had no information to support claims by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had US-made heavy military equipment in Iraq, while Erdoğan said the information has been published in Internet media.
"I have no idea what that statement would be based on.

It would be pretty difficult to see how heavy military equipment would get into the hands of the PKK," US State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said at a daily press conference on Friday. "Certainly it would not be anything that would be supported by this government or any member of the US military that I'm familiar with. There is no information that I have of any kind that would support such an allegation.""

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