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Article: Remarks following a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and an exchange with reporters.(Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
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- November 12, 2007
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November 5, 2007
President Bush. Mr. Prime Minister, welcome back to the Oval Office. As usual, we had a very constructive conversation. Turkey is a strategic partner and strong ally of America. I value our friendship at the state level, at the personal level.
We had a long discussion about a common concern, and that concern is the PKK. PKK is a terrorist organization. They're an enemy of Turkey; they're an enemy of Iraq; and they're an enemy of the United States. We have talked about how we can work together to protect ourselves from the PKK.
We talked about the need to have better intelligence sharing. In order to chase down people who murder ...