Reply #11: Turkish and Iranian units already are coordinating bombardment [View All]

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of Kurdish PKK bases on their shared borders.

There's a received and a real mutual interest to put down the separatist movement. See, www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=36445

Turkey, Iran agree on active cooperation against terror
Thursday, February 23, 2006

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News


Turkish and Iranian officials have decided to enter into active bilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorism and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) late on Tuesday in Tehran. The decision came at the end of a three-day meeting of Turkish and Iranian officials who had gathered in the Iranian capital for the 11th round of Turkey-Iran High Security Commission meetings. Head of the Turkish delegation Interior Ministry Undersecretary Şahabettin Harput and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr, signed the MoU on the two countries' active cooperation against terrorism.

Delivering speeches at a ceremony held for the signing of the MoU, both Harput and Zolqadr described talks as “positive and constructive,” the Anatolia news agency reported. The substance of the MoU in brief is “the region becoming a peaceful land which is purified from all kinds of terror,” according to Harput.

Ankara has similar concerns as Tehran in regards to mutual neighbor Iraq and the threat posed by members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is carrying out attacks on Turkish soil. The group is also believed to be behind ongoing ethnic unrest in Iran's northwest.