Turkey seeks U.S. help with rebels
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will urge the United States to take concrete action to crack down on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, newspapers reported on Sunday, as a unilateral rebel ceasefire went into effect.
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Iraq tsaid it would send a military delegation to Turkey to discuss settling a dispute with a Kurdish separatist group.
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Turkey said on Monday it would  exhaust diplomatic channels before launching any military  strike into northern Iraq to root out Kurdish rebels, who  killed at least a dozen Turkish soldiers in fighting over the  weekend.
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The US State Department acknowledged Tuesday Turkish concerns over the fate of ethnic Turkmen caught in the fighting in Iraq. On Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan signaled on Tuesday Turkey should focus on battling Kurdish guerrillas at home rather than in northern Iraq.
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Turkish legislators said Thursday that American weapons have been turning up in the hands of Kurdish guerrillas staging attacks in Turkey.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkey was poised on Monday to strike against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq but will give Washington a few days to try to curb the separatists.
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Â· Call for US to move against Kurdish guerrillasÂ· PKK behind bombings in Ankara, say authorities
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The U.S. ambassador to the Philippines met the leader of the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions over U.S. soldiers entering Muslim areas in the south.
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A US envoy who will co-ordinate the fight against the PKK Kurdish rebels holds talks in Turkey.
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Turkey's foreign minister flew to Baghdad Tuesday to pressure top Iraqi officials to crackdown on Kurdish rebels who ambushed and killed 12 Turkish soldiers two days before
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Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey on northern Iraq after an ambush by Kurdish rebels left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead.
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WACO, Texas  - President George W. Bush will discuss with Turkish President Abdullah Gul efforts to counter Kurdish rebels when they meet at the White House on January 8, the White House said on Friday.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan  will urge the United States to take concrete action to crack  down on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, newspapers said on Sunday,  as a unilateral rebel ceasefire went into effect.
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Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has appealed to his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to call a ceasefire in its separatist campaign against the Turkish government.
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In an effort to root out Kurdish separatist guerrillas Turkey is stepping up its presence along its border of Iraq.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkey said on Monday it would exhaust diplomatic channels before launching any military strike into northern Iraq to root out Kurdish rebels, who killed at least a dozen Turkish soldiers in fighting over the weekend.