One of her top aides has been speaking with NATO officials and talking directly with officials in France and Turkey.

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After years of mutual hostility, Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds are at last talking.

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Turkey's government announced late last year that its intelligence agency was talking to the rebels' jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan with the aim of persuading the group to disarm.

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