Monday, 21 June 2010 16:26<\/p>\n
U.S. Ambassador in Ankara James Jeffrey denied any deficiency in his country’s part in intelligence sharing with the Turkish Army after PKK attacks.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey, in a message of condolence he released Monday for the families of Turkish soldiers killed in a deadly attack staged by PKK militants, said he shared the grief over the loss of Turkish soldiers, regarding PKK as the “common enemy” of Turkey and the U.S.<\/p>\n
A large group of PKK militants which infiltrated into Turkey from the North of Iraq, attacked a military outpost near the Iraqi border Saturday. 11 soldiers were killed and 16 were wounded during that attack and operations that ensued.<\/p>\n
In the after math of the attack news and comments appeared in the media voicing doubts over the intelligence sharing mechanism between the U.S. and Turkish Armed Forces against PKK.<\/p>\n
Many columnists and military analysts criticized the mechanism, some accuseed U.S. of not providing intelligence.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey’s message comes after such setting.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey said his country continued to actively support Turkey, “a U.S.ally” in his own words, in its fight to terminate the terrorist threat.<\/p>\n
“There is no change to the level of our intelligence-sharing with Turkey regarding PKK activities in northern Iraq.”<\/p>\n
In November 2007, Turkish Prime Minister met former U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington D.C. and the two agreed on intelligence sharing. The U.S. military began supplying real-time intelligence to Turkey and Turkish Armed Forces used the intelligence to launch air strikes against PKK targets in the north of Iraq.<\/p>\n
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