"A look at diplomatic negotiations amid crisis in Turkey
Some major diplomatic efforts to try to avert a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq against separatist Kurdish rebels.
_ Oct. 21: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and presses for restraint while also speaking to the leader of Iraq's Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, to ask for action from Iraq against the Kurdish militants."
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