US STATE DEPARTMENT DENIED ALLEGATIONS IN SUPPLYING WEAPONS TO PKK TERRORISTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.07.2007 18:46 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Allegations that the US was supplying weapons to the
terrorists of PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan) are untrue," US State
Department spokesman Sean McCormack stated. He said that cooperation
between Iraq and Turkey would serve both countries’ interests.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said US officials
had told Ankara that their administration had in no way supplied
weapons to the PKK. Gul added, however, that they had proven that
some weapons used by the terrorist group were American or European.
Turkey’s top diplomat added that in the chaos and power vacuum plaguing
Iraq, PKK terrorists are using weapons given to the Iraqi army by
European countries and the United States. He also urged the US to
"act very carefully, as it has lost a great deal of its credibility
in the Turkish public", Turkiye newspaper reports.