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Brian4Liberty
10-18-2012, 02:37 PM
It appears that Turkey doesn't want any drone attacks in their country...

http://reason.com/24-7/2012/10/18/us-offered-turkey-help-against-kurdish-g


If Francis Ricciardone, the U.S. Ambassador to Ankara, had not revealed that there had been a secret offer to the Turkish government to have an “Anti-bin Laden” type joint operation against Murat Karayılan and other military leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based in the north of Iraq, it would possibly have remained a secret for many more years.

Responding to questions from Turkish journalists, Ricciardone said on Oct. 16 that the U.S. had offered the Turkish government its state of the art military technology to hunt down the military leaders of the PKK. However, the Turkish government declined, saying it would continue fighting the PKK “on the basis of its laws and experiences.”

When asked the same day, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan confirmed that he had turned down the offer on a rather technical basis. “Bin Laden was caught in a house” he said, recalling the U.S. commando raid on a house near the Pakistani capital Islamabad on May 2, 2011. “But the struggle here is in mountainous geography”. (We can assume that the offer was made within the last year-and-a-half.)

As far as has been revealed up to now, this is the second secret offer of assistance by the U.S. against the PKK. The PKK has waged an armed campaign for an independent Kurdish state carved out of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, which has claimed over 40,000 lives over the last three decades.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/and-the-us-reveals-its-secret-offer-to-turkey.aspx?PageID=238&NID=32692&NewsCatID=409