U.S. President George W. Bush called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday amid Turkey's military strikes against the bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
"The president and the prime minister exchanged greetings and best wishes for the New Year," U.S. National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
"They also discussed their common efforts to fight terrorism, and the importance of the United States, Turkey and Iraq working together to confront the PKK," Johndroe said.
According to reports from Turkish media, Bush gave his backing for the military strikes against the PKK and the two hailed the cooperation in dealing against the PKK.
The Turkish military has recently launched several cross-border attacks to fight separatist PKK rebels, who use northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks against Turkey.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source: Xinhua
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