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Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ‘‘. . . underscores the 
commitment of the United States to work with Turkey 
and Iraq to eliminate terrorism in all its forms’’; 
Whereas a Congressional letter was sent to President George 
W. Bush on October 6, 2006, urging him to deter PKK 
terrorism emanating from Northern Iraq; 
Whereas on March 15, 2007, General Ralston stated before 
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on 
Europe, ‘‘The continued ability of this terrorist group to 
operate from Iraqi territory is a threat to regional secu-
rity and an impediment to improvements in the lives of 
people on both sides of the border.’’; 
Whereas on Friday, November 2, 2007, Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice in a joint press conference with Turkish 
Foreign Minister Ali Babacan stated ‘‘We consider this 
(the PKK) a common threat, not just to the interests of 
Turkey but to the interests of the United States as well. 
This is going to take persistence and it’s going to take 
commitment—this is a very difficult problem.’’; and 
Whereas the United States and the Republic of Turkey share 
a longstanding partnership strengthened by their commit-
ment to democracy, military alliance in the North Atlan-
tic Treaty Organization (NATO), and close cooperation 
in the war on terror: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms its steadfast support for United 
States-Turkish relations; 
(2) condemns, in the strongest terms, the un-
conscionable terrorist attacks by the Kurdistan 
Workers’ Party (PKK) against the Turkish people; 
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(3) reaffirms the support of the United States 
for Turkey’s right to self-defense; 
(4) urges President Bush to appoint a new 
United States Special Envoy for Countering the 
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); 
(5) urges the Bush Administration to take di-
rect, concrete and immediate action to prevent the 
PKK from using bases in northern Iraq to carry out 
attacks against the people and Government of Tur-
key; 
(6) calls on the United Nations Security Coun-
cil to condemn the horrific terrorist acts perpetrated 
by the PKK; 
(7) urges the national Government of Iraq to 
take concrete steps to remove the PKK from Iraqi 
territory; 
(8) calls on Kurdish regional government in 
northern Iraq to take concrete, definitive and imme-
diate action against the PKK by closing down PKK 
military bases in the Qandil mountains in northern 
Iraq and prevent further cross border attacks from 
northern Iraq into Turkey; and 
(9) urges the Secretary of State to designate 
the Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK) as an organiza-
tion affiliated with the PKK on the list of foreign 
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terrorist organizations pursuant to section 219 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189). 
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