President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that a joint Turkish-Iranian operation
against Kurdish militants was "always on the agenda", a week after
Tehran's top armed forces commander visited Ankara for rare talks.
Turkey
has battled the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for decades,
while the Iranian security forces have also fought its affiliate, the
Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK). Both groups have rear bases in
neighbouring Iraq.
"It
is always on the agenda to carry out a joint operation with Iran
against those terror organisations which pose a threat," Erdogan told
reporters in Istanbul before a trip to Jordan.
