Did President Bush during his conversation with Prime Minister Erdogan reiterate the US position concerning cross-border operations?
Ambassador Wilson: What I would like to focus on is the fact that both the President and Secretary Rice talked about what we are prepared to try to do together with Iraq and Turkey to work effectively on the problem of the PKK. I think I’d just as soon leave it at that. Question: As you are evacuating people from Lebanon do you feel uneasy about your country’s (inaudible) and the increasing number of evacuees? Ambassador Wilson: I don’t feel at all uneasy about my country’s position. We are working to try to help thousands of Americans and thousands of citizens from other countries who are trapped by the fighting there to get out of harm’s way. And we have been doing that work together with a variety of other countries with nationals in the area, and other countries in the region in particular with Turkey and also with Cyprus. I think that is a separate issue from the position that Secretary Rice has enunciated on the more general approach to the conflict there. We are working hard. We
