The White House urged Iraq's government on Wednesday to keep its promise to shut the offices of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of Turkey.
"We can understand why the Turks would be skeptical, because that pledge was made, it does need to be fulfilled and we'll be talking to the Iraqis about that, as well," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who labeled the PKK as "a bad terrorist organization," ordered on Tuesday to close the PKK offices in Iraq and pledged not to allow the banned PKK fighters to work on Iraqi soil.
Al-Maliki's order is believed to be the second of its kind since mid-September 2006.
Turkey's parliament approved on Oct. 17 a government motion backing a cross-border operation into northern Iraq for pursuing PKK militants who have kept attacking against Turkey's military targets.
The PKK has fought more than 20 years for an independent Kurdish country in southern Turkey.
Source: Xinhua
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