ANKARA (AFP) - The United States warned Turkey that a cross-border operation against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq would be "unwise," drawing angry accusations from Ankara that Washington is using double standards in the region.
"We have repeatedly said that we believe that unilateral military action across the border with Iraq would be unwise," the US ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, said in an interview with the NTV news channel.
He was speaking after Ankara on Monday urged Washington and Baghdad to act against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose militants have enjoyed safe haven in the mountains of northern Iraq, signalling that it is ready to take cross-border action if they fail to do so.
Ankara says the PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European union, uses bases in northern Iraq as a springboard to launch attacks in adjoining southeast Turkey.
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