President George W. Bush told

Pre­si­dent George W. Bush told Tur­kish Prime Minster Tayyip Erdo­gan that the Uni­ted Sta­tes wants to deal more aggres­sively with cross-border attacks by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, the White House said on Tuesday.

“We have talked about estab­lish­ing a tri­la­te­ral fram­ework between the Uni­ted Sta­tes, Iraq and Tur­key to address this issue,” natio­nal security advi­ser Step­hen Had­ley said after Bush met Iraqi Prime Minis­ter Nuri al-Maliki.(reuters)