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Rice Visits Turkey to Defuse Border Tensions

Secretary of State Rice met Friday with Turkish officials in Ankara amid efforts to calm tensions over Turkey's threat to strike at Kurdish separatists operating from bases in neighboring Iraq.

Rice also met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is due to hold talks with President Bush on Monday in Washington.

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