Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Ankara rules out dialogue with PKK

"Ankara rules out dialogue with PKK
Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:28AM

The Turkish government says it does not recognize the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as an interlocutor or a partner for political negotiation.

'We, as the government, will never sit at the table and have talks with a terrorist organization or its representatives. Such a thing has never happened,' Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying in a television interview late on Monday."

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