Erdoğan’s country
Sitting next to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed to reporters during a Pentagon press conference on Oct. 25 that his country has actually offered Turkey a “Bin Laden type” operation against the military chiefs of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The offer was first revealed by Francis Ricciardone, the U.S. Ambassador to Ankara on Oct. 16 and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said the same day that he had turned it down because the circumstances were not the same.
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