President Bush, seeking to mend frayed relations with Turkey, sought to assure Turkey’s prime minister yesterday that the United States is working to prevent a possible breakup of Iraq that would give the Kurdish minority its own state. “The United States’ ambition is for a peaceful country, a democratic Iraq that is territorially intact,” Bush told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as they met with reporters before lunch at the White House. Turkey has a sizable Kurdish minority and officials fear even greater autonomy for the Kurdish population in Iraq — whose lands border Turkey — would fuel a Kurdish independence movement In Turkey. Full Story
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