U.S. generals meet over Kurdish rebels
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Two top U.S. generals met with the Turkish army’s second-ranking officer to discuss measures to crack down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.
Turkey has massed troops on its border with Iraq and has been weighing a cross-border attack against the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
The United States considers the PKK a terrorist organization, and President Bush told visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month that the U.S. would begin sharing intelligence on the guerrillas.
The latest talks -- between Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq; and Turkey’s Gen. Ergin Saygun -- lasted a few hours, U.S. officials said, but no further details were available.
PKK guerrillas have killed more than 50 Turks in cross-border raids since late September.
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