28/09/2010Commander of U.S. forces in Iraq up to Ankara
ANKARA, Turkish sources said on Tuesday, said the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd Austin, has arrived in the capital Ankara on a private jet to make some official meetings with officials in Turkey, according to the agency Cihan news reporting of Turkey.
According to the agency, "the General greeted at the airport in Austin Teeth Boga Ankara by U.S. Embassy officials in the capital Ankara," adding that "the issue of the PKK, table tops Austin talks during a meeting with Turkish Interior Minister Atalai Bashir and other officials."
The Atalai who visited a few days before the Kurdistan region and met with President Massoud Barzani, the Prime Minister Barham Saleh, to discuss the Kurdish issue, had announced earlier that Austin will visit Ankara to discuss the same subject. "
It is expected to visit the adviser to the Turkish National Intelligence Agency Hakan Fidan Arbil, capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq within the next few days.
It is hoped that the Atalai after the meeting with General American to visit Damascus and Tehran to meet with officials in both countries.
The aim of diplomacy to find a solution the Kurdish issue in Turkey and to make the cease-fire "Kurdistan" a lasting peace.
The Vice-President of the Conference of a democratic society Essel Tugluk, who met yesterday, the leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, the detainee had told the reporters that "we are close to peace."
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