US DELEGATION MEETING TO FOCUS ON PKK KADEK ISSUE

Info-Prod Research (Middle East), September, 2003

>According to Sabah, a delegation from the US State Department, Pentagon and intelligence services arrived in Ankara to discuss the PKK_KADEK issue with Turkish officials. The seven-member delegation led by the State Department's Lynn Pascoe is set to begin its meetings at the Foreign Ministry. Ankara is expected to make clear its concerns over the issue, underlining that Washington should take firmer measures to eliminate the terrorist group in northern Iraq. Turkish officials will also brief the delegation on developments since the recent passage of an amnesty law designed to encourage terrorists to lay down their arms.