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23 January 2003

Text: U.S. Officials Did Not Meet with Kurdistan Workers' Party

(Answer to taken question from January 23 State Department briefing)
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Following is the official answer to a question taken at the January 23
regular State Department briefing; the answer was posted later in the
day:
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US DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
January 23, 2003
Taken Question from January 23, 2003 Daily Press Briefing
TURKEY: ALLEGATIONS OF U.S. OFFICIALS MEETING WITH MEMBERS OF THE
KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY (PKK)
Question: What is the U.S. reaction to allegations that American
officials have held meetings with members of the Kurdistan Workers'
Party in Northern Turkey?
Answer: Allegations reported in some Turkish media that U.S. officials
have met with members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party are completely
untrue and an obvious fabrication.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (also known as the Kurdish Freedom and
Democracy Congress) is a known terrorist organization whose murderous
activities have been well documented in our annual "Patterns of Global
Terrorism" report. The United States has cooperated with Turkey over
the past several years to bring many of these terrorists to justice.
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(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)