Back at the White House, President Bush emerged from his meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan with a pledge to provide intelligence over Kurdish movements in northern Iraq.

President Bush: “We had a long discussion about a common concern. And that concern is the PKK. The PKK is a terrorist organization. They’re an enemy of Turkey, they’re an enemy of Iraq, and they’re an enemy of the United States.”

Analysts say a full-scale Turkish invasion of northern Iraq is unlikely, but that President Bush has effectively given his tacit approval for limited Turkish bombings of Kurdish rebel positions there.