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CIA chief to meet Turkish PM
12.12.2005
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ANKARA, Dec 11 (AFP)
- 16h56 - US Central Intelligence Agency chief
Porter Goss arrived in Turkey on Sunday for talks
with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and
intelligence officials.
The Hurriyet daily said the talks on Monday would
focus on the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a
separatist militant outfit from Turkey's Kurdish
minority branded a "terrorist" group by Washington
and Ankara.
Turkey has long expressed frustration at
Washington's reluctance to remove PKK sanctuaries in
Kurdish-majority areas of northern Iraq, from where
they launch armed operations in Turkey.
The PKK took up arms in 1984 for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast. The conflict has
claimed some 37,000 lives.
Erdogan confirmed to journalists that he would meet
Goss on Monday but refused to be drawn on specifics,
saying only that the CIA director was coming at
Ankara's invitation, according to the Anatolia news
agency.
Goss's trip comes two days after US Federal Bureau
of Investigation director Robert Mueller visited
Turkey to discuss the PKK.
It also comes after US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a European tour to
clarify reports of CIA anti-terror shuttle flights
and alleged secret prisons in Europe.
AFP
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